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Political battle lines are becoming increasingly entrenched, and opposing views are being pushed towards ever greater extremes. Language has become a battlefield. If morality pushes us apart, and religion does not help in the process, we may find a solution in our sense of humanity, writes German psychiatrist Manfred Lütz in Die Welt.
Many of history’s best-known painters and sculptors were thought to be gay or bisexual, but major Rembrandt and Michelangelo exhibitions have mostly remained silent on the subject. And yet the artists’ works are full of sexual symbols.
One patient tells our Naples-based Dottoré about trauma and aptly-named victims.
In the Italian city of Turin, a gym has installed urinals that appear to be shaped like a woman’s open mouth. From Duchamp to Warhol to Mick Jagger, everything we see is in the eyes of the beholder.
An Italian art historian has pieced together a little-known element in the Renaissance master’s portraits and sculptures that he believes may explain Michelangelo’s deepest beliefs.