Crossing a stone bridge that spanned the green waters of the Tiber, I passed two young American men, the kind with hair cranked up in tufts like they just rolled out of bed who sport T-shirts with slogans like, “Save water, drink beer. In fact, the statues and paintings looked like the women I know — all soft arms and rounded bellies, with real bosoms and full backs. If the women were more natural and less idyllic — or, rather, the ideal of a different time — then the men of Rome — in art and on the streets — were something else entirely. The boyish waiter at our neighborhood pizzeria, the blue-eyed electrician who came to fix our hot water heater, even the taxi drivers with their reckless steering and stereotypically Italian lead feet — all of them were gorgeous. Michelangelo is said to have believed the male form superior to the female figure, even using male models for his female subjects (check out the stocky Sybils on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel). His great est work — the sculpted David — is the definition of masculinity. read more
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