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Benvenuto Cellini\u2019s sculptural work \u201cApollo and Hyacinth\u201d at Florence\u2019s Bargello National Museum is one of the queerest in the whole Renaissance period.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Apollo and Hyacinth, marble, 1546-48<\/p><\/div>\n

The group portrays Apollo<\/strong>, god of the arts and medicine, with his boy-lover Hyacinth<\/strong> in an episode drawn from Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses<\/em>. The writers tells about a hunting trip when Apollo accidentally wounds<\/strong> his young partner. Unable to heal him, despite his miraculous powers, Apollo turns Hyacinth into a flower<\/strong> so that he will live forever<\/strong> in a different form.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ritratto di Benvenuto Cellini<\/p><\/div>\n

Benvenuto Cellini celebrates this touching moment with sophisticated<\/strong> elegance and skilled expertise. Apollo is depicted standing, proud and distant, while Hyacinth is kneeling at his feet as he is looking up at his god-lover adoringly and languidly for the last time.<\/p>\n

The dominance\/submission<\/strong> pattern Cellini deals with here is largely determined by the social and cultural context<\/strong> of Medicean Florence. The relationship between an older man and a younger one, close to what happened in ancient Greece between an \u201cerastes\u201d and a \u201ceromenos\u201d, was informally accepted<\/strong> in Renaissance Florence as it marked a significant moment in the growth of an adolescent boy and a fundamental rite of passage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Ancient Greeks prescribed a form of “love of youths”. Younger boys (eromenoi) submitted to intercourse with older men (erastai) as a rite of growth.<\/h3>\n
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Apollo and Hycainth, detail<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cellini turns this delicate moment into a meaningful artistic masterpiece<\/strong> which proves his extraordinary sense of invention<\/strong>. Just like Apollo transforms his proteg\u00e9 and lover Hyacinth, giving him all the knowledge he needs, Cellini, neo-erastes, moulds young apprentices into skilled artists<\/strong> who will be capable of celebrating the complicated allegories of Neoplatonic love.\u00a0<\/span>This outstanding<\/strong> work poses itself as a metaphor of artistic creativity<\/strong> which, like life itself, thrives on constant metamorphoses<\/strong> and love\u2019s gender-free cross-fertilizations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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If you want to learn more about this work and many others, book our tour at Florence\u2019s Bargello National Museum<\/strong>\u00a0www.queertuscanytours.com\/en\/shop\/english-tours\/queer-florence-in-one-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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