#Pier Francesco Orsini

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Italy, in the garden of Pier Francesco Orsini. 1952.

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PARCO DEI MOSTRI DI BOMARZO, VITERBO

Si narra che il parco venne costruito per volere del Principe Pier Francesco Orsini nel 1500 solo per "per sfogare il core" dopo la prematura morte della moglie Giulia Farnese.

#parco dei mostri di bomarzo

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Garden of Pier Francesco Orsini, Italy. 1952

#Cold War

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Photo by Herbert List; Orco, Sacro Bosco – Garden of Pier Francesco Orsini, Bomarzo, (Lazio), Italy 1952

#.text #love this pic SO muc

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … December 11

1475 – Pope Leo X (d.1521), born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, was the Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521. He was the last non-priest (only a deacon) to be elected Pope. He is known for granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica and his challenging of Martin Luther's 95 Theses. He was the second son of Lorenzo de' Medici, the most famous ruler of the Florentine Republic, and Clarice Orsini. His cousin, Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici, would later succeed him as Pope Clement VII (1523-34).

Several modern historians have concluded that Leo was homosexual. Contemporary tracts and accounts such as that of Francesco Guicciardini have been found to allude to active same-sex relations - alleging Count Ludovico Rangone and Galeotto Malatesta were among his lovers.

Cesare Falconi has examined in particular Leo's infatuation with the Venetian noble Marcantonio Flaminio, with Leo arranging the best education that could be offered for the time. Von Pastor has argued, however, against the credibility of these testimonies, and rejected accusations of immorality as anti-papal polemic. Gucciardini was not resident at the papal court during Leo's pontificate, while other contemporaries such as Matteo Herculano took pains to praise his chastity. Paul Strathern, a British writer and academic, argues that Leo, while homosexual, was not sexually active as pope, despite identifying notable members of that family as such.

Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais

1913 – Jean Marais, French actor (d.1998); Marais was never much of an actor, and it is doubtful he would have achieved international fame had he not become Jean Cocteau's lover, but he was, by universal acclaim, one of the most handsome men ever to appear in films. In the 1940s when he made most of his movies for Cocteau, actors were still slicking down their hair with Kreml and Vitalis. But he changed all that. His cheveaux fous and athletic good looks created a new style of postwar leading man.

When in 1946 he spent his time in Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, trapped within an ape-like constume, waiting for Beauty's kiss to turn him once again into Jean Marais, Gay moviegoers around the world secretly wished that they were Josette Day who actually got to kiss the handsome actor's furry face. What is perhaps most interesting about the friendship between Cocteau and Marais is that the actor's face in profile bore an astonishing resemblance to the boys Cocteau had been sketching for thirty years before meeting him.

In the 1960s, he played the famed villain of the Fantômas trilogy. After 1970, Marais's on-screen performances became few and far between, as he preferred concentrating on his stage work. He kept performing on stage until his eighties, also working as a sculptor. In 1985, he was the head of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.

1948 – Alvin Baltrop (d.2004) was a gay African-American photographer who earned fame through his photographs of the Hudson River piers during the 1970s and 1980s.

Baltrop was born in 1948 in the Bronx. He discovered his love of photography in junior high school. Baltrop received no formal art education; older photographers from the neighborhood taught him different techniques and how to develop photos himself.

Baltrop enlisted in the Navy as a medic during the Vietnam War and continued taking photos, mainly of his friends in sexually provocative poses. He built his own developing lab in the sick bay, using medic trays for developing trays. After his time in the Navy, Baltrop worked odd jobs as a street vendor, a jewelry designer, a printer, and a cab driver. Because he wanted to spend more time taking photos at the Hudson River piers, he quit his job as a cab driver to become a self-employed mover. He would park his van at the piers for days at a time, living out of his van to take pictures.

From 1975 through 1986, Baltrop took photographs of the West Side piers, where he was a well-known member of the community. Baltrop knew every person he photographed, and people often volunteered to be photographed. Younger boys and men at the piers often confided in him about their sexual orientation, their relationships with their families, their housing status, and their work.

Baltrop captured the gay cruising spots and hookup culture that existed in New York City before the AIDS epidemic. Baltrop's photographs not only captured human personalities, but also the aesthetics of the dilapidated piers. His life work is a snapshot of gay, African-American, and New York City history.

Baltrop struggled to make his way in the art world, facing racism from the white gay art world. Gay curators often rejected his work, accused him of stealing it, or stole his work themselves.

"Three Sailors"

Late during the 1990s, NYC artist John Drury, who knew Alvin from their shared neighborhood - Drury living on Third Street, with his wife and Baltrop on Second Street, in lower Manhattan - befriended the artist and recognized the photographers unique abilities, nominating him for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award for the Arts. Alvin Baltrop had few exhibits in his lifetime; his work gaining international fame only after his death.

According to one journalist, Baltrop came out as gay at fourteen years old. Baltrop had long term relationships with men and women, but preferred identifying as gay.

Baltrop was diagnosed with cancer in the 1990s. Impoverished and without health insurance, curators and filmmakers attempted to exploit him for their own financial gain. He died on February 1, 2004

1990 – Nakshatra Bagwe, born in Mumbai, India, is an Indian actor and award winning film maker. Nakshatra will be making his Indian feature film debut in My Son is Gay and is due for his international film debut as the lead actor of Hearts. His films Logging Out, Book of Love, Curtains and PR (Public Relations) represent the current LGBT scenario of India.

He is a LGBT rights activist and also an organiser of Gujarat's first ever pride march. Nakshatra has participated in several Pride Parades in India. He won KASHISH – Mumbai International Queer Film Festival in 2012 for his debut film Logging Out. It was screened at prestigious venues like Queens Museum of Arts (New York), The Old Cinema (London) and it was also a part of Queer India European tour 2012 to raise awareness about LGBT issues in the Indian context.

Nakshatra hails from Konkan coastal region. Masure, Malvan is his native village. He takes part in homosexuality awareness projects. Nakshatra and his mother were featured in a promo of popular Indian television show Satyamev Jayte. He came out to society when he participated in Asia’s first LGBT flashmob. He also participated in second queer flashmob which happened at Dadar station, Mumbai. Nakshatra posed nude for a campaign named 'Breaking Closets'.

In July 2014, He became the brand ambassador of Moovz, a global social network for gay men. Nakshatra is first and only openly Indian LGBT person to be signed up as the brand ambassador by any brand till now.

1998 – The mother of Tyra Hunter (1970 – 1995) is awarded $2.9 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Washington DC. Hunter, a pre-operative transsexual, died of injuries sustained in a car accident in 1995. Emergency medical technicians at the scene were abusive and withheld treatment, and a doctor at DC General Hospital failed to follow nationally accepted standards of care.

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Italy, in the garden of Pier Francesco Orsini. 1952

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Τοποθετημένο κοντά στην ήσυχη ιταλική πόλη Bomarzo, περίπου 92 χιλιόμετρα βόρεια της Ρώμης, το Sacro Bosco χτίστηκε τον 16ο αιώνα από τον Pier Francesco “Vicino” Orsini, έναν μεγάλο στρατιωτικό ηγέτη και προστάτη των τεχνών https://helenastales.weebly.com/blogue/italys-mysterious-medieval-garden-of-monsters7419456 https://corfiatiko.blogspot.com/2023/11/blog-post_745.html ... Περισσότερα εδώ: https://romios.gr/o-mystiriodis-mesaionikos-kipos-ton-teraton-tis-italias/

#ΠερίεργαΑστεία

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Il Parco dei Mostri di Bomarzo

Il famoso Parco dei Mostri di Bomarzo sorge su un tipico borgo storico della Tuscia, nel Lazio.

Il borgo di Bomarzo si trova situato dal 1500 tra due dolci colline vicino al confine con l’Umbria, immerso in un paesaggio agreste a 17km dalla provincia di Viterbo e a solo 1 ora da Roma!

Il Parco dei Mostri, noto anche con il nome Sacro Bosco di Bomarzo, fu ideato dall'architetto Pirro Ligorio (colui che completò San Pietro dopo la morte di Michelangelo) su commissione del Principe Pier Francesco Orsini, detto Vicino, allo scopo di "sol per sfogare il core" dopo la morte della moglie Giulia Farnese.

Dopo la morte di Vicino Orsini, principe di Bomarzo, nessuno si curò più di questo luogo, fin quando artisti del calibro di Claude Lorrain, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Salvador Dali, Mario Praz e Maurizio Calvesi non hanno iniziato a interessarsi a questo luogo spettacolare, motivando l’interesse a restaurare il parco e aprirlo al pubblico.

L’arte di questo Parco desta stupore e bellezza negli occhi del visitatore: dal Gigante Ercole all’Elefante, ogni angolo è scolpito in unità tra materia lapidea e cornice vegetale. In numerosi angoli, vi sono citazioni che alludono alla capacità del visitatore di saper cogliere l’essenza stessa del Parco.   All’ingresso del parco sono poste due sfingi e sotto le quali vi sono delle iscrizioni, quasi da avvertimento e subito a suscitare meraviglia : “chi con ciglia inarcate et labbra strette non va per questo loco manco ammira le famose del mondo moli sette” ovvero – chi non è in grado di ammirare le meraviglie del parco di Bomarzo non è in grado di ammirare nemmeno le sette meraviglie del mondo – e sulla seconda sfinge : “tu ch’entri qua pon mente parte a parte et dimmi poi se tante meraviglie sien fatte per inganno o pur per arte” cioè – tu che entri qui fai attenzione a tutto ciò che vedi e poi dimmi se tante meraviglie sono state fatte per inganno o per arte.

Una delle citazioni più famose inoltre è quella dell’Orco delle Favole, che riporta un tratto dell’Inferno ripreso dalla Divina Commedia dantesca : “OGNI PENSIERO VOLA” che lascia traspirare una vena di superiorità e di sfida aleggia tra le incisioni.

La visita di questo meraviglioso parco è veramente ideale per adulti e bambini! Porta subito chi ami insieme a te a visitare questo bellissimo e soprattutto misterioso parco ! Potrai soggiornare a Roma presso b&b più adatto a te! Ci trovi nel centro storico di Roma, a pochi passi dai principali monumenti e dai mezzi di trasporto per raggiungere il parco, e potrai trovare affittacamere e b&b a prezzi super economici!

#affittacamereroma #guesthouserome #b&broma #piazzanavona #piazzadispagna #piazzadelpopolo #campodeifiori #b&bromacentro

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JARDÍN DE LOS MONSTRUOS, BOMARZO. ¿Crónica de una traición renacentista?

Resumen y sinopsis de Bomarzo de Manuel Mújica Láinez

La Esfinge de Bomarzo, animal mitológico, mitad león, mitad mujer. A la esfinge se le atribuían en la antigua Grecia diversas leyendas, siempre relacionadas con el misterio, la mala suerte y la destrucción

El jorobado duque Pier Francesco Orsini, entre cuyos parientes figuraban papas, señores de la guerra y distinguidos cortesanos, poseía gran cultura y sabiduría y, en su extravagancia, creó hermosos seres fantásticos con cautivadoras deformaciones, que instaló cerca del castillo, en un lugar conocido como el Bosque de los Monstruos. La vida y aventuras del atroz y angelical duque de Orsini, sus incontables desgracias y hazañas, constituyen el memorable mural en el que Manuel Mujica Lainez despliega una visión cínica y objetiva de los manejos de la política y del poder, de la psicología de quienes lo ejercen. Reelaboración minuciosa, mágica y poética de todo un mundo de príncipes, cardenales, condottieri, bufones, artistas, cortesanos y escritores, Bomarzo no sólo es una hermosa novela histórica, sino una narración apasionante que trasciende el género para convertirse en la crónica lúcida de una civilización, y la obra más ambiciosa y acabada de uno de los máximos exponentes de la narrativa hispánica contemporánea.

#JARDÍN DE LOS MONSTRUOS BOMARZO. ¿Crónica de una traición renacentista? #¿Historias cortas para no dormir? #¿Esta es la imagen y algunos datos (O no) la “Historia” la pones tú? ¡La tuya! ¿Lo harás...?

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Italy, in the garden of Pier Francesco Orsini. 1952.

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PARCO DEI MOSTRI DI BOMARZO, VITERBO

Si narra che il parco venne costruito per volere del Principe Pier Francesco Orsini nel 1500 solo per "per sfogare il core" dopo la prematura morte della moglie Giulia Farnese.

#Parco dei mostri di bomarzo

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Parco dei Mostri - Orco by Ylis7 Via Flickr: « Voi che pel mondo gite errando vaghi di veder meraviglie alte et stupende venite qua, dove son facce horrende, elefanti, leoni, orchi et draghi. »

#Parco dei Mostri #sacro bosco #Bomarzo #Viterbo #Villa delle Meraviglie #Pier Francesco Orsini #Vicino Orsini #Natura #Fantasia #Ylis #canon #Foto canon #parco #Orco #Draghi #Drago

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Parco dei Mostri 16th century garden filled with sculptures by Pier Francesco Orsini photo - Herbert List, 1952

#Parco dei Mostri #Garden of Bomarzo #Pier Francesco Orsini #sculpture #Italy #Herbert List

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Melusine ~ Bomarzo Monster Park 9 ~ Italy ~ 16th century ~ designed by Prince Pier Francesco Orsini and the architect Pirro Ligorio, a disciple of Michelangelo Buonarroti ~ photo by Amor-Fati-Stock on DeviantArt

"The Prince Pier Francesco Orsini, also known as Vicino, who lived in Bomarzo in the 16th century, wanted to create a mystical world to give refuge to his wounded soul and escape from the horror of the brutal war he fought following the papal troops. But he also wanted to create a Sacred Grove, as he used to call it, to consecrate it to the memory of his beloved wife Giulia Farnese, who prematurely died after 10 years of marriage. There is no wonder then if the monumental complex became an expression of scare and grief caused by the torments of life. Torments that he wanted to materialize in monster statues, to have a tactile enemy to defeat. A way to exorcise his pain and grief."

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Herbert List (German, 1903-1975), Orco, Sacro Bosco – Garden of Pier Francesco Orsini, Bomarzo, (Lazio), Italy, 1952

#photography #black and white #herbert list #1950s photography

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ITALY. Latium. Bomarzo. Sacro Bosco. Mostro in the garden of Pier Francesco Orsini. 1952.

Ph Herbert List

#herbert list