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Pre modern (before year 1800) / Pre-moderno (antes del año 1800) / Pre-moderne (avant l'an 1800) / Pre-moderne (prima dell'anno 1800)

Pre-modern - images / Pre-moderno - imágenes / Pre-moderne - images / Pre-moderne - immagini

  • new kingdom, 18th dinasty, 1480-1390 BC, Theban necropolis at Egyptian museum of Turin, Italy

  • two men with two women at Suburban Baths (Pompeii)

  • Zoan-Andrea (1464-1526), Two women. Italian Renaissance engraving.

  • Allegorical kiss between Justice and Peace.

  • Allegorical kiss between Justice and Peace.

  • Zeus, disguised as Diana, rapes Callisto. This is the only openly lesbian Greek myth.

  • Hendrick Goltzius (1581-1617), Justice and Prudence kiss each other.

  • Hendrick Goltzius (1581-1617), Concordia and Peace kiss each other.

  • by Hans Kels the Elder ( carving : workshop of Jörg Breu the Elder ), design attributed to Geor Hörmann, dated 1537. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

  • Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing

  • Wolfgang Heimbach, Damen baden im Fluss, 1640

  • The birth of Bacchus by Master of Hovingham

  • Gérard Lairesse, Diana e Callisto.

  • Jacopo Amigoni (1675 - 1752), Giove e Callisto (ca. 1740/1750).

  • Pan and Syrinx by François Boucher (1759)

  • slepping Baccantes surprised by satyrs by François Boucher

  • Pan and Syrinx (1762)

  • Diane sortant du bain by Francois Bouche

  • Jupiter and Kallisto by Francois Bouche

  • Jupiter and Kallisto by Francois Bouche

  • Summer anagoria by François Boucher

  • Leda and swan by François Boucher

  • La Toilette de Venus by François Lemoyne

  • Woman Bathing by François Lemoyne

  • Three women. 18th century engraving, created for a male audience.

  • Four women. 1797

  • Illustration from Le paysan ét la paysane pervertis; ou Les dangérs de la ville, 1787, by Restif de La Bretonne (1734-1806).

  • 18 c.

Pre-modern - people / Pre-moderno - gente / Pre-moderne - personnes / Pre-moderne - persone

Sappho / Saffo / Safo

  • Sappho reading a poem. Attic vase, 440-430 bC.

  • Colossal head of Sappho, Istanbul. 2nd century aD.

  • Colossal head of Sappho, Istanbul. 2nd century aD.

  • The so-called "Sappho". Fourth style Roman fresco, 1st century AD; Pompeii, Region VI, Insula occidentalis.

  • Sappho as seen by Raphael, circa 1510. Rome, Palazzi vaticani, stanza della segnatura.

Christina of Sweden / Cristina de Suecia / Christine de Suède / Cristina di Svezia

  • Sébastien Bourdon: Christina of Sweden.

  • Sébastien Bourdon: Christina of Sweden (1653).

  • Christina of Sweden - engraving by Quillet.

  • Queen Christina's grave, in San Pietro, Roma.

  • Monument in the Musei Capitolini in Roma.

  • Monument in the Musei Capitolini in Roma.

  • Sébastien Bourdon (±1653): Ebba Sparre (1626-1662) lady-in-waiting to and intimate companion of Sweden's Queen Christina

Aphra Behn

  • Aphra Behn by Peter Lely ca. 1670

  • Oroonoko

Archduchess Marie Christine and Princess Isabella of Parma

1800-2000

1800-2000 - facts / 1800-2000 - hechos / 1800-2000 - factes / 1800-2000 - fatti

  • Courbet - The Sleep

  • ca. 1840

  • ca. 1840

  • Anonym, c.1855

  • Carmilla the 1. lesbian vampire story, 1872

  • Damned Women, modeled by Auguste Rodin c. 1885

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), The sofa Sun.

  • Toulouse-Lautrec, The two girlfriends, (ca. 1894-5).

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Two girlfriends.

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Two women.

  •    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Two half-naked women.

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), At the Moulin rouge (1892)

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), In bed (1892)

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), In bed (1893)

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), In bed (1893)

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), The kiss, (1892).

  • Cha-U-Kao by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  • May Belfort by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  • Wilhelm von Plueschow (1852-1930), Two women, Rome, ca. 1900.

  • by Marcel Chatelain, ca. 1904

  • Allegorical statues in Vienna.

  • Allegorical statues in Vienna.

  • 1883

  • a lesbian brothel, 1884

  • Félicien Rops, circa 1890

  • Potok (1903) by Maxmilián Pirner

  • Egon Schiele, Frauenpaar, 1915.

  • "Lesbian couple". From a criminological book, 1915.

  • Deux jeunes Femme couchées by Félix-Jacques Moulin 1850

  • Egon Schiele, Hochendes frauenpaar, 1918.

  • Anonym, c.1920

  • A 1928 issue of German lesbian paper "Die Freundin".

  • German lesbian paper Liebende Frauen with advertising of the Book Berlins lesbische Frauen by Ruth Margarete Roellig, 1928

  • The black triangle, used in nazi lagers for "asocial" people, is now a widespread lesbian symbol.

  • Women's Barracks by Tereska Torrès

  • Lesbians, HIV and safer sex (1992)

1800-2000 - People / 1800-2000 - Personas / 1800-2000 - Personnes / 1800-2000 - Persone

21st century / Siglo XXI / 21me siècle / 21mo secolo

21st century - facts / Siglo XXI - hechos / 21me siècle - facts / 21mo secolo - fatti

  • La Lista lesbica italiana al Bari Pride (Italy, 2003).

  • "Dykes on bykes" at the Icelandic lesbian and gay pride march.

  • "Dykes on bykes" at the Icelandic lesbian and gay pride march.

  • At the lesbian and gay pride march in Taiwan, 2005.

  • At the lesbian and gay pride march in Taiwan, 2005.

  • Thoko Ngubeni in her fight against all kinds of discrimination and stigmitisation. by Andrew Esiebo

  • NYC Pride Parade 2012

21st century - people / Siglo XXI - gente / 21me siècle - gens / 21mo secolo - persone

21st century - Maps / Siglo XXI - Mapas / 21me siècle - Plans / 21mo secolo - Mappe

  • Recognition of same-sex relationships: Europe

  • Recognition of same-sex relationships: North America, from Mexico north

  • Recognition of same-sex relationships: United States

  • Gay adoption: Europe

  • Gay adoption: North America