Known? ---No. Just putting aside Freud for a second (or permanently, if possible), as I understand it there's some speculation surrounding a younger man he took under his care, and there was an anonymous accusation that he was bedding one of the... male studio models, I think. But the accusation was likely made to slander the model, so it's hard to say. I don't think anyone can be absolutely certain of either claim.
There's also some literature to suggest that he never had sex at all.
Byrons - Chloe.invisibyronMarch 14 2008, 16:54:02 UTC
I don't... think so? I'd have to do some research, I'm not a keen enough da Vinci scholar to be able to distinguish models. Jacopo Scaparelli was the model who was accused.
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No, Saltarelli.
There's always been discussion about The Allegory of Pleasure and Pain. Pleasure was a younger man, Pain an older, and supposedly da Vinci was the latter to... Pleasure's former, supposedly a young man he'd adopted. The one I mentioned.
Do you have a bet going? I'm afraid it'll be impossible to collect, either way.
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There's also some literature to suggest that he never had sex at all.
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You remember that piece in the Louvre? Pretty boy with curly hair, he was pointing at something?
Was that the [...] "slandered" model?
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No, Saltarelli.
There's always been discussion about The Allegory of Pleasure and Pain. Pleasure was a younger man, Pain an older, and supposedly da Vinci was the latter to... Pleasure's former, supposedly a young man he'd adopted. The one I mentioned.
Do you have a bet going? I'm afraid it'll be impossible to collect, either way.
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Last night during [...] relations, my mind started to wander. When I [...] looked up it was that boy, looking down instead of Les.
It only lasted less than a minute, and I would have completely chocked up to slightly tipsy crazies if it wasn't for the dream I'd had last week.
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