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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 15h

A Sèvres plate that should have existed. Porcelain stops behaving: a kiss breaking through courtly etiquette. queeringfinearts.com brings back the desire history erased. #queeringfinearts #QueerArt #ArtHistory #gayart #hotmen #MasculineLove #HomoeroticArt #Sèvres #porcelaine #MonarchiedeJuillet

Preparatory sketch for the imagined Sèvres plate. Two male figures appear entwined in a tender, intimate pose. The drawing reveals the gesture and structure behind the final work, suggesting how queer desire underlies the later porcelain composition.

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 15h

A Sèvres plate that should have existed. Porcelain stops behaving: a kiss breaking through courtly etiquette. queeringfinearts.com brings back the desire history erased. #queeringfinearts #QueerArt #ArtHistory #gayart #hotmen #MasculineLove #HomoeroticArt #Sèvres #porcelaine #MonarchiedeJuillet

Close-up of the central scene on the imagined Sèvres plate: two men kissing, one half-undressed, the other bare to the hips. The porcelain surface frames their intimacy with green enamel, flowers and gold decoration, blending sensuality and high decorative tradition.

Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 15h

A Sèvres plate that should have existed. Porcelain stops behaving: a kiss breaking through courtly etiquette. queeringfinearts.com brings back the desire history erased. #queeringfinearts #QueerArt #ArtHistory #gayart #hotmen #MasculineLove #HomoeroticArt #Sèvres #porcelaine #MonarchiedeJuillet

A full view of an imagined 1839 Sèvres-style porcelain plate. At the center, two men embrace in a moment of intimate tenderness, framed by a rich green ground, floral reserves and gilt scrolls. The design evokes both courtly refinement and a queer narrative long kept out of official imagery.

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 18h

Before the gilding and the soft glow of the enamel, there is the raw line where the story begins.
The sketch reveals the gesture, the tension and the queer myth beneath the finished plate.
This is where the imaginary museum takes shape.

Preparatory sketch showing two male figures in an intimate embrace, used as the basis for the imagined Sèvres-style plate.

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 18h

The imagined Sèvres plate, finally revealed in full.
A world of flowers, gilding and courtly decorum—disrupted at the centre by two men holding each other exactly where history tried to keep them out.
Queering Fine Arts restores what the 19th century refused to show.

Full view of an imagined Sèvres-style plate showing two men embracing, framed by green enamel, flowers and gilding.

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 9d

Dive deeper into The Sepulchral Kiss of Johann Kaspar Todt by reading the full story, inspired by this macabre engraving. Explore the mysteries of forbidden love and grotesque beauty in the Collections section at queeringfinearts.com

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 9d

#QueerArt #MasculineDesire #ErosAndThanatos #EroticDecay #ArtOfSeduction #ForbiddenLove #LustAndDeath #TalesOfDesire #SensualArt #MasculineIntimacy

Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 9d

This All Hallows' Eve, Johann Kaspar Todt’s engraving emerges from the shadows, where Death and Desire share a forbidden kiss—a balance of lust and horror. Discover The Sepulchral Kiss and explore Romanticism's dark side.

A macabre and erotic engraving by Johann Kaspar Todt, showing the moment of a forbidden kiss between death and desire, where life and decay intertwine. The piece embodies the fusion of passion and horror, with an intense focus on the grotesque beauty of the human form.

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 12d

Two graphite studies are taking shape in my studio this week — one destined for oil, the other for engraving.
Each traces the uneasy beauty of flesh and decay, where desire and dissolution intertwine.
Leave a ❤️ or 🖤 in the comments to decide which study I’ll finish for Halloween.

EN: Colored pencil drawing showing a living male figure holding a decomposing body, rendered in warm tones of red and yellow. Preparatory work for the Halloween piece in the Queering Fine Arts Collections.
FR: Dessin au crayon de couleur représentant un homme vivant tenant dans ses bras un corps en décomposition, aux tons rouges et jaunes. Étude préparatoire pour l’œuvre d’Halloween des Collections de Queering Fine Arts.

EN: Graphite drawing depicting a living man confronted with a decaying figure, captured through expressive lines and anatomical precision. Preparatory work for the Halloween piece in the Queering Fine Arts Collections.
FR: Dessin au crayon graphite représentant un homme vivant face à un corps en décomposition, traité avec des lignes expressives et une précision anatomique. Étude préparatoire pour l’œuvre d’Halloween des Collections de Queering Fine Arts.

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 13d

Hands that speak louder than words.
The soldier’s sword asserts his virility, while the other man’s hand, holding his companion’s hat, takes a piece of his attire — playful, intimate, charged.
Desire flows between them, blurring power and tenderness.
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Close-up from The Lovers of Toledo, attributed to Francisco de Goya: at left a half-naked soldier’s hand rests on his sword; at right, another man holds the soldier’s tricorne hat, a piece of his attire turned intimate. The gestures suggest desire and tenderness.

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 13d

I’ve spent years tracing what was made to disappear — the bodies, the tenderness, the danger of being seen.
Queering Fine Arts is the museum I built for them — for us — where desire and history meet again without apology.
Step inside: queerinfinearts.com

Close-up from The Lovers of Toledo, attributed to Francisco de Goya: at left a half-naked soldier’s hand rests on a sword; at right an elegantly dressed man holds the soldier’s tricorne hat, as if keeping a piece of his attire. The gestures suggest intimacy.

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 15d

From the Collections—Don Juan of Austria in His Gallery in Brussels, Surrounded by His Gentlemen.
A chapter of queer history once censored; reclaimed now.
Dive deeper → www.queeringfinearts.com/collections
#HiddenHistories #HistoryOfDesire #QueeringArtHistory #DigitalMuseum

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 15d

#QueerArt #DigitalMuseum #EroticArt #MasculineIntimacy #ArtHistory
A hidden chapter of queer history: a 17th-century gallery where collecting became theatre—men desiring men behind art’s decorum.
Don Juan of Austria in His Gallery in Brussels—after David Teniers the Younger.

A 17th-century Flemish painting reimagined as a queer tableau, depicting Don Juan of Austria surrounded by his male circle — revealing desire behind art’s decorum.

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 15d

From the Collections — The Lovers of Toledo, in the manner of Francisco de Goya.
Follow the rabbit hole: where desire, art history, and imagination blur → queerinfinearts.com
#TheLoversOfToledo #Collections #ImaginaryMuseum #ArtAndDesire #ReimaginedClassic #HiddenHistories #QueeringFineArts

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 15d

#QueerArt #DigitalMuseum #EroticArt #MasculineIntimacy #GoyaInspired
Two men, half-dressed, close enough for the heat between them to replace light.
Flesh against fabric, power against surrender — the line between them no longer moral, only physical.
The Lovers of Toledo — after Goya.

A reimagined 19th-century painting inspired by Francisco de Goya, depicting two men in intimate proximity.

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 23d

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · 23d

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · May 24

It’s something I could do. Did play posters, exhibition illustrated panels, a lot of artwork similar to this theme and programs but never a book cover. But it could be very interesting.

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Queering Fine Arts @queeringfinearts.bsky.social · May 13

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