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== Erotic art in the 15th and 16th century == === Drawings - Fossombrone Sketchbook - Workshop of Raphael === In the Fossombrone sketchbook, which is from the workshop of Raphael,<ref name=2013Turner2nd>{{cite journal |author=James Grantham Turner |date=February 2013 |title=Invention and Sexuality in the Raphael Workshop: Before the Modi |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264506338 |journal=Art History |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=72–99 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8365.2012.00942.x |access-date=24 June 2024}}</ref> there are two drawings that show sex between two people.<ref name=2013Turnerp72/><ref name="June 2009 page 121">{{Cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43826068 |author=James Grantham Turner |date= June 2009 |title=Woodcut Copics of the "Modi" |journal=Print Quarterly |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=121–122 |jstor=43826068 |access-date=2 August 2023 }}</ref> One idea is that these two drawings are based on "I modi" engravings.<ref name=2013Turnerp72/><ref name="June 2009 page 121"/> Image 16 from the woodcut booklet has some similarities to both of these drawings.<ref name=2013Turnerp72/><ref name="June 2009 page 121"/> Another idea that has been speculated is that they show "...independant permutations and variations on sexual motifs perhaps from an antique source, perhaps invented in Raphael's studio."<ref name=2013Turnerp72>{{cite journal |author=James Grantham Turner |date=February 2013 |title=Invention and Sexuality in the Raphael Workshop: Before the Modi |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264506338 |journal=Art History |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=72–99|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8365.2012.00942.x |access-date=24 June 2024}}</ref> Further that "...these drawings while fascinatingly similar to the Modi, differ even more significantly from anything in the visual remains of those prints, as well as from each other in composition and perhaps graphic style."<ref name=2013Turnerp72/> It was further commented that these two drawings "...allow the Modi to be understood as emerging from a collective enterprise, rather than as unique orignary models."<ref name=2013Turnerp72/> and that "...these erotic scenes [can be seen] as pure fantasia, products of heated imagination."<ref name=2013Turnerp72/> <gallery mode="packed" heights="200px"> File:Drawing - sexual scene - Fossombrone sketchbook - Studio of Raphael - 2.jpg|Sex between a female and a male on a kline. Drawing. From the Fossombrone sketchbook. File:Drawing - sexual scene - Fossombrone sketchbook - Studio of Raphael - 4.jpg|<small>A second different drawing from the Fossombrone sketchbook. This drawing also shows sex between a female and a male.</small> </gallery> === Fresco cycle on the ceiling of the Farnese Gallery - Annibale Carracci and studio (Between 1597 and 1608) === Between 1597 and 1608 [[Annibale Carracci]] and his studio painted a fresco cycle on the ceiling of the Farnese Gallery which is located in the west wing of the [[Palazzo Farnese]] in Rome. This fresco cycle is titled ''[[The Loves of the Gods]]'' and the images were drawn from Ovid's ''[[Metamorphoses (poem)|Metamorphoses]]''. These frescos include nudes that are intimating sex between two people in contrast to the engravings in ''I modi''. <gallery mode="packed" heights="220px"> File:Anibale Carracci, Farnese Ceiling, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus.jpg|<small>Painting from the fresco cycle ''Loves of the Gods''. Annibale Carracci and studio. Palazzo Farnese, Rome. Between 1597 and 1608</small> Image:Carracci - Jupiter et Junon.jpeg|<small>Jupiter and Juno. Painting from the fresco cycle ''Loves of the Gods''. Annibale Carracci and studio. Palazzo Farnese, Rome. 1597 to 1608</small> </gallery> ===Erotic art by Giulio Romano and Marcantonio Raimondi=== Giulio Romano and Marcantonio Raimondi have both created erotic art outside of their collaboration on ''I modi''.<ref name="2017 Visible"/> In the hall of Cupid and Psyche in Te Palace in Mantua, Romano created the fresco ''Jupiter seducing Olympia'' and it shows Jupiter with an erection approaching a reclining Olympia.<ref name="2017 Visible"/> In around 1520 to 1530 Romano created the painting ''The Lovers'' that shows an erotic scene between two figures on a bed<ref name="2017 Visible"/> and carved into a leg of the bed is an erotic scene between a female and a Satyr.<ref name="2017 Visible"/> In around 1530 Romano also created a drawing of an erotic scene between a female and a male.<ref name="2017 Visible"/> In around 1500 to 1505 Raimondi created a drawing of Leda and the Swan<ref name="2017 Visible"/> and in around 1510 he created a drawng of a female standing whilst holding a dildo next to her vagina.<ref name="2017 Visible"/> <gallery class="center" widths="220" heights="220" perrow="4" mode="packed"> File:Giulio Romano - Jupiter Seducing Olympias - WGA09573.jpg|''Jupiter seducing Olympia'', Giulio Romano. Fresco. In the hall of cupid and Psyche in the Te palace in Mantua. Between 1526 and 1528 File:Lovers- Giulio Romano - oil painting - 1520s - 1530s.jpg|''The Lovers'', Giulio Romano. Oil painting. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Around 1520 to 1530 File:Giulio Romano Lovers 1525-1528 Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest.jpg|''Erotic Scene'', Giulio Romano. Pen and charcoal drawing. Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest). Around 1530 Marcantonio - Leda and the Swan, 1946,0713.210.jpg|''Leda and the Swan'', Maracantonio Raimondi. Pen and chalk drawing. British Museum, London. 1500 to 1505 File:Engraving - Inventory No.NMG B 1169 1990.jpg|<small>''Standing woman with Artificial Phallus'',<ref name=visible>{{cite book|author=James Grantham Turner |date=2017 |title= Eros visible : art, sexuality and antiquity in Renaissance Italy |url= https://wellcomecollection.org/works/c3qzs7e6 |publisher= Yale University Press}}</ref> Maracantonio Raimondi. Fragment of a copperplate engraving.<ref name=visible/> Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Around 1510?<ref name=visible/> </small> </gallery> === Erotic Renaissance paintings in the 15th and 16th century === In around 1500 Jacopo de' Barbari created the painting the ''Naked Lovers'' that shows an erotic scene between two standing naked figures. In the first third of the 16th century<ref name=Becker1992>{{cite book |last1=Becker |first1=Claus|last2=Shy |first2=Marlon |last3=Orlando |first3=Vincenzo |last4=Elder |first4=Irene |last5= Ungerer|first5=Toni|date=1992 |title=Museum der Erotischen Kunst|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L3n4swEACAAJ |location=Munich |publisher=Wilhelm Heyne|isbn=978-3-453-06268-9 }}</ref> Bernard van Orley created the painting ''Neptune and Nymph'' that shows sex between a Nymph and Neptune. In the Schifanoia Palace in Ferrara, there is a hall titled the Hall of the Months and in this hall there is a fresco cycle described as "...a sort of large calendar"<ref name="Hall of the Months">{{cite web |url=https://www.artecultura.fe.it/378/il-salone-dei-mesi |title=The Hall of the Months |website=Civic Museums of Ancient Art, Ferrara |access-date=1 October 2024}}</ref> that combines scenes of ancient mythology with astrological scenes.<ref name="Palazzo Schifanoia">{{cite web |url=https://www.iguzzini.com/projects/project-gallery/the-hall-of-the-months-at-palazzo-schifanoia/ |title=The Hall of the Months at Palazzo Schifanoia |website=iGuzzini illuminazione |access-date=1 October 2024}}</ref> One of these frescos titled the ''Allegory of April'' shows an erotic scene in the lower left hand corner. The frescos were created by Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de’ Roberti<ref name="Palazzo Schifanoia"/> and Gherardo di Andrea Fiorini<ref name="Hall of the Months"/><ref name="Palazzo Schifanoia"/> in around 1469.<ref name="Hall of the Months" /> In around 1470 the oil painting ''Love spell''<ref name="Description">See a photo of a description for the painting on wikimedia commons: File:GER — Sachsen — Leipzig — Katharinenstraße 10 (MdbK) Mattes 2022-03-23 Batch (29).jpg</ref> was created that shows a nude female inside a room dropping water into a chest that contains a large heart. At the rear of the room a second person is entering and is vieweing the scene from a doorway. The painting is by an unknown lower Rhenish artist.<ref name="Description"/> <gallery class="center" widths="250" heights="250" perrow="4" mode="packed"> File:Naked Lovers (verso of the Portrait of a Man) - Jacopo de' Barbari - around 1500.jpg|''Naked lovers'', Jacopo de' Barbari. Oil on poplar panel. State Museums, Berlin. Around 1500. "Neptune and Nymph" Bernard van Orley. 16th century. private collection - 4.jpg|''Neptune and Nymph''. Bernard van Orley. Oil on panel. Private collection. First third of the 16th century.<ref name=Becker1992/> File:Allegory of April - Francesco del Cossa - 1.jpg|''Allegory of April''. A fresco in the Hall of the Months in the Schifanoia Palace, Ferrara. Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de’ Roberti<ref name="Palazzo Schifanoia"/> and Gherardo di Andrea Fiorini.<ref name="Hall of the Months"/> Around 1469 File:GER — Sachsen — Leipzig — Katharinenstraße 10 (MdbK) Mattes 2022-03-23 Batch (30).jpg|''Love Spell''. Artist: Unknown lower Rhenish artist. Oil on panel. Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Around 1470<ref name="Description"/> </gallery>
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