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Aspects of love in Michelangelo 'Myth of Ganymede' exhibit explores subtexts of sexuality
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International Herald Tribune
07-20-2002
Long thought to be a copy of Michelangelo's marvelous drawing ''The Rape of Ganymede,'' the version now at the Fogg Museum of Art in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was identified as the original in the mid-1970s.The picture was done in 1532 by the artist as a gift for Tommaso de' Cavalieri, the precocious young son of a Roman nobleman, a few days after Michelangelo met the boy, to encourage him in his efforts to learn to draw. It was a...
