Powerfully muscled backs, piston thighs, meaty buttocks you could bounce quarters off for days. “In a flare of lusty creativity, from the late 1580s until the early 1590s, this underappreciated Mannerist [Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem] produced some of the greatest — and strangest — homoerotic paintings of all time. And … this glaringly obvious fact [has] been studiously ignored in almost all the art historical commentary on his work.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
