Erotomania
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Erotomania is an excessive sexual inclination or desire.
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Introduction to the history of erotomania
This page traces the roots of modern eroticism (themes, people, media) since its beginnings in Antiquity. It includes historians and theorists of sexuality and erotica such as Freud, Reich, Foucault and Ellis.
Antiquity
Pompeii - Ars Amatoria - Ovid
Middle Ages
Eroticism is rare in the art of the Early Christian period and the Middle Ages. Pagan monuments were often overtly sexual, but Christian art shunned the world of physical love [...]. Christianity was a non-sexual religion. --Peter Webb, 1975, page 104
Italian Renaissance
Themes: Venus by Titian, Giorgione - Leda by Michelangelo (1530) - Danae
The renewal of interest in Classical Antiquity during the 15th century Italian Renaissance brought about dramatic changes in the progress of the arts. The shameful connotations associated with nudity per se began to disappear, and with the rise of enlightened secular patronage, the hold of the Church over the arts weakened. --Peter Webb, 1975, p. 107
The rebirth of Classical Antiquity was also the rebirth of Venus, and erotic images of the goddess of love are characteristic of Renaissance art. --Peter Webb, 1975, p. 108
First documented censorship incidents: Sistine chapel Last Judgment (1563) frescoes by Michelangelo and Pietro Aretino's sonnets (1524) and accompanying engravings.
To do: Agostino Carracci's depictions of satyrs and nymphs and the Carracci's The Loves of the Gods
Gothic art and Northern Renaissance
Northern Europe developed an altogether different sense of eroticism, where erotic representations are often coupled with images of death. [Jan 2006]
- The 7 Ages of Woman - Hans Baldung Grien (1484-1545)
- Judgment of Paris (1518) - Niklaus Manuel
- Venus Standing in a Landscape (1529) - Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Three Ages of the Woman and the Death (1510) Hans Baldung Grien
- Dead Lovers (1528) Matthias Grünewald
- The Wild Army (c. 1520) - Urs Graf
17th century
Belgium: Rubens
Netherlands: Rembrandt (Ledikant, c. 1646)
Spain: Velazquez (Rokeby Venus, c. 1655)
France: School of Fontainebleau
Literature: A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (1659) - The School of Venus (1680)- Venus in the Cloister (1683)
18th century
Literature: Libertine novels: Dom Bougre (1741) - Le Sopha (1742) - Les Bijoux indiscrets (1748) - Thérèse Philosophe (1748) - Fanny Hill (1750) - Juliette (1797)
France: François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Spain: Goya
François Boucher - John Cleland - Choderlos de Laclos - Marquis de Sade
19th century
Art as an excuse for depicting prurient interests
Henry Spencer Ashbee - Charles Baudelaire - Aubrey Beardsley - Theresa Berkley - Alfred Binet - Charles Carrington - Restif de la Bretonne - Gustave Courbet - Achille Devéria - Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Havelock Ellis - Sigmund Freud - Théophile Gautier - Jules Gay - Frederick Hankey - Edouard Manet - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Octave Mirbeau - Bénedict-Auguste Morel - Alfred de Musset - Andre Robert Andrea de Nerciat - Félicien Rops - Swinburne - Oscar Wilde
Printers of erotica of the late 1800s: Jules Gay - Henry Kistemaeckers - Auguste Poulet-Malassis
20th century (1900-1944)
Guillaume Apollinaire - Balthus - Franz von Bayros - Georges Bataille - Iwan Bloch - Eduard Fuchs - Magnus Hirschfeld - James Joyce - Jack Kahane - D.H. Lawrence - Thomas Edward Lawrence - Pierre Louÿs - Martin Van Maële - Egon Schiele - Bruno Schulz - Erich von Stroheim
20th century (1945 - 1970)
Hans Bellmer - Jean de Berg - José Bénazéraf - Tinto Brass - Luis Buñuel - Jess Franco - Jean Genet - Maurice Girodias - Alfred Hitchcock - Alfred Charles Kinsey - Irving Klaw - Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen - Eric Losfeld - J.M. Lo Duca - Herbert Marcuse - Pierre Molinier - Russ Meyer - Radley Metzger - Henry Miller - Carlo Mollino - Alberto Moravia - Otto Mühl - Vladimir Nabokov - Anais Nin - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Jean-Jacques Pauvert - Max Pécas - Georges Pichard - Wilhelm Reich - Barney Rosset - Roland Topor - Alexander Trocchi - Clovis Trouille - John Willie - Roger Vadim
20th century (1971-2006)
Nobuyoshi Araki - Pedro Almodóvar - Gilles Berquet - Bernardo Bertolucci - Robert Bishop - Walerian Borowczyk - Guy Bourdin - Jean-Pierre Bouyxou - Catherine Breillat - Trevor Brown - Guido Crepax - David Cronenberg - Hans Jürgen Döpp - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Michel Foucault - Leone Frollo - Jay Gertzman - Alain Robbe-Grillet - David Hamilton - Yoshifumi Hayashi - Michel Houellebecq - Juzo Itami - Elfriede Jelinek - Allen Jones - Patrick J. Kearney - Richard Kern - Eric Kroll - Stanley Kubrick - Tanino Liberatore - Dusan Makavejev - Mirka Lugosi - Milo Manara - Robert Mapplethorpe - Steven Marcus - Peter Mendes - Bernard de Montorgueil - Helmut Newton - François Ozon - Camille Paglia - Roman Polanski - Pauline Réage - Alex de Renzy - Anne Rice - Nicolas Roeg - Modesto Roldan - Jean Rollin - Ken Russell - Romain Slocombe - Hajime Sorayama - Eric Stanton - Sheryl Straight - Lars von Trier - Colin Wilson
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