Hideki Koh

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Hideki Koh
Hideki Koh ("Kinoe Hideki") was born in 1951 Kyoto, JapanHe is a highly skilled artist with a natural ability to harmonies colour and form, also unique composition. A master at capturing the beauty and mystery of the Japanese male. His works display young Japanese men in both subtle and highly erotic situations, using historica

Michelangelo (1475 - 1564)
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo [wiki] Shame on you if I have to tell you about this guy. Watch the pictures (click to enlarge) and repeat after me: "O.M.G.!" If you're not a christian you might prefer f*cking h*ll and when you're really impressed by the fact that this is 500 years old, just drop your jaw.Sistine Chapel:

Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologie

Classics from the 'New world'
I could only find three pictures of nude men from the early America's and even two of those were made by European conquerors to show off their supremacy. One image however depicts a Mayan couple who are clearly in an amorous constraint kissing each other. I could not trace the originality of the image, but it suggests that amorous relationships among men were, at least once, recognized as a form of art. Anthropologists mention vast differences in attitude towards gay- or boy/man relationships among native tribes. Where in some groups these were commonly accepted while neighbouring groups recognized the tendencies towards these relationships but regarded them taboo.Nudity, although com

Hugo Simberg
(June 24 1873, Hamina - July 12 1917, Ähtäri) was a Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist. In 1895 he became the private pupil of Akseli Gallen-Kallela [1;2;3] at his wilderness studio Kalela in Ruovesi. The two characters Simberg used most in his art are the "Poor Devil" and Death.He also took photographs and made drawings of naked pre-pubescent boys, many carrying large wreaths. The wreath-bearing boys have a link with Simberg's earlier photographs [