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needupdate southeast Asian non-Western #historicalimage — A statue of a man masturbating at Candi Sukuh in Central Java, Indonesia. Sukuh is a 15th-century Javanese-Hindu temple (candi). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_at_Candi_Sukuh.jpg

needupdate Etruscan ancient c 570 BCE relief #historicalimage redbubble lgbtqiap — https://sammlungonline.mkg-hamburg.de/de/object/Treppensteinrelief/1999.280/dc00127271

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103W79

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/12077/attributed-to-onesimos-and-euphronios-attic-red-figure-cup-type-b-greek-attic-about-490-bc — greek period art needupdate #historicalimage #okaytouse redbubble

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103W5X

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/12025/circle-of-phiale-painter-attic-red-figure-lekythos-greek-attic-about-450-bc/ — greek period art needupdate #historicalimage #okaytouse redbubble

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103W7J

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/12086/attributed-to-the-foundry-painter-attic-red-figure-cup-greek-attic-about-480-bc/ — greek period art needupdate sex act #historicalimage #okaytouse redbubble

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1884-0412-21 — period art needupdate wptest German #historicalimage redbubble

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1922-0114-13 — period art needupdate German #historicalimage redbubble

needupdate Ukrainian East Slavic Russian — https://statehistory.ru/2057/Zapretnyy-risunok-iz-Zolotykh-vorot-Kieva/

needupdate Ukrainian Slavic Russian #historicalimage — https://statehistory.ru/2057/Zapretnyy-risunok-iz-Zolotykh-vorot-Kieva/

Abraham de Bruyn

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-1889-A-14173 — period art black and white brothel needupdate #historicalimage

Pieter Aertsen
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-3 — period art color brothel needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

needupdate — ‘Ali Quli Jubbadar – painting; calligraphy Isfahan School, Persian, 1660-1670 CE British Museum, museum number 1920,0917,0.295 Painting; a lady offering a flower to a prince. The magnificent turban, with its jewelled and feather ornaments, identify the man as a prince; while the plunging neckline of the woman’s dress and her bare feet indicate that she is most likely a courtesan, not a princess. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1920-0917-0-295 Tags: 1660s, 17th century, Aliquli Jabbadar, British Museum, calligraphy, color, courtesan, Islamic, manuscript, painted, painting, period art, Persian, Safavid dynasty, sex worker needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Anonymous
https://emblems.hum.uu.nl/nj1617035.html — period art black and white brothel needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Anonymous
https://emblems.hum.uu.nl/nj1617039.html — period art black and whitebrothel needupdate #historicalimage

Anonymous
https://emblems.hum.uu.nl/nj1617031.html — period art black and white brothel needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Anonymous

https://emblems.hum.uu.nl/nj1617034.html — period art black and white needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Anonymous

https://www.boijmans.nl/collectie/kunstwerken/124419/bordeelscene — Tags: period art black and white brothel needupdate #historicalimage

Anonymous – Courtesan Chinese, c. 744 Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Museum Unearthed at the Astana Graves in 1972 from the tomb number 187 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anonymous-Astana_Graves_Courtesan1.jpg Tags: period art color Asian Tang Dynasty sex worker 8th century painting needupdate #historicalimage

Anonymous – Courtesan Chinese, c. 744 Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Museum Unearthed at the Astana Graves in 1972 from the tomb number 187 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anonymous-Astana_Graves_Courtesan2.jpg Tags: period art color Asian Tang Dynasty sex worker 8th century painting needupdate #historicalimage

Jacob Adriaensz Backer - Courtisane
, 1630-1650
http://www.matriznet.dgpc.pt/MatrizNet/Objectos/ObjectosConsultar.aspx?IdReg=250854

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Adriaensz_Backer_(1608-1651)_-_Courtisane_(1640).jpg — period art color needupdate breast #historicalimage redbubble

http://mek.oszk.hu/01800/01885/html/index1178.html

http://warfare.ga/Ottoman/Album/Szigetvari_Csobor_Balazs-10.htm

http://diglib.hab.de/?db=mss&list=ms&id=206-blank&catalog=Butzmann&image=00035 — Fig 10, Dancer with castanets (köçek) From “Türkische Trachtenbilder” by Szigetvári Csöbör Balázs Istanbul, Turkey, 1570 Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Codex Guelf 206 Blank fol. 15r Tags: period art color Islamic Ottoman Turkish manuscript needupdate #historicalimage #okaytouse

Meister mit den Bandrollen

https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at?queryid=b549fa93-276c-4217-8adb-191b21e5a2e8 — period art black and white bathhouse needupdate #historicalimage

Hieronymus Bosch – The Pedlar Dutch, ca. 1500 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, accession number 1079 (OK) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Wayfarer_(detail)_-_WGA2545.jpg Source: https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/1556 Tags: period art color brothel Netherlands 16th century brothel needupdate #historicalimage

needupdate Other European Slovakian 15th century #historicalimage — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bratislava,_Posmieva%C4%8Dik.jpg

Augustin Braun

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360256

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Prodigal_Son_Squanders_his_Fortune_with_Prostitutes_MET_DP802895.jpg — Tags: period art black and white brothel needupdate #historicalimage #okaytouse

Augustin Braun

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360256

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Prodigal_Son_Squanders_his_Fortune_with_Prostitutes_MET_DP802895.jpg — Tags: period art black and white brothel needupdate #historicalimage #okaytouse

needupdate — album; painting from Series: The Habits of the Grand Signor’s Court Ottoman Turkish, ca. 1620 British Museum, museum number 1928,0323,0.46.76 Circassian woman. Inscription below says ‘a harlot woman’. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1928-0323-0-46-76 Tags: period art color Islamic 17th century sex worker manuscript needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

needupdate — album; painting from Series: The Habits of the Grand Signor’s Court Ottoman Turkish, ca. 1620 British Museum, museum number 1928,0323,0.46.108 A fahişe, or whore, wearing a dark blue-lined kaftan, red tunic, gold belt, white shoes, and tall silver headdress with a white cloth. Holding a feather fan. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1928-0323-0-46-108 Tags: period art color Islamic 17th century sex worker manuscript needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Hans Brosamer

https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/?query=search=/record/objectnumbersearch=[D%2fI%2f18a%2f69]&showtype=record#/query/d6e63ef9-edea-477f-9363-3b5be70c917f — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Brunswick Monogrammist – Die lockere Gesellschaft (The Loose Company) Netherlands, 1535-1540 Gemäldegalerie, Ident.Nr. 558 Source: http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?objectId=865839 Tags: period art color Bordellszene brothel scene sex worker 16th century painting needupdate #historicalimage

After The Brunswick Monogrammist – Entertainers in a Brothel Dutch, about 1555 National Gallery, London, inventory number NG5577 Source: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/NG5577 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/after-the-brunswick-monogrammist-entertainers-in-a-brothel Tags: period art color Netherlands 16th century needupdate #historicalimage

Brunswick Monogrammist
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-A-1561

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gezelschap_in_een_bordeel_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-1561.jpeg — period art color brothel needupdate #historicalimage

Attic Red-Figure Cup. Courtesan (Hetaira) Washing Attic Greek, ca. 480 BCE Michael C. Carlos Museum, object number 2003.010.001 Source: https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/10209/kylix-with-a-prostitute-preparing-to-bathe?ctx=36e44ff574b35528f13740a6b6a6d374370be76a&idx=1 http://carlos.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/items/show/6870 Tags: period art color ancient hetaera sex worker needupdate #historicalimage #okaytousewithcredit redbubble

Portrait of Chen Yuanyuan Chinese, 17th century Portrait of Chen Yuanyuan (1624–1681), concubine of Wu Sangui (1612–1678) renowned for her beauty. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Chen_Yuanyuan.jpg Tags: period art color Asian late Ming and early Qing dynasty China courtesan sex worker painting needupdate #historicalimage

Young Turkish men dancing (köçek) Ottoman Turkish, 1575-1600 Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Codex Vindobonensis 8626, fol. 118r Source: https://onb.digital/result/10EDD89F Tags: period art color Islamic 16th century sex worker male gnc manuscript needupdate #historicalimage #okaytouse redbubble

http://diglib.hab.de/?db=mss&list=ms&id=206-blank&catalog=Butzmann&image=00035

http://mek.oszk.hu/01800/01885/html/index1178.html

http://warfare.ga/Ottoman/Album/Szigetvari_Csobor_Balazs-10.htm — Fig 10, Dancer with castanets (köçek) From “Türkische Trachtenbilder” by Szigetvári Csöbör Balázs Istanbul, Turkey, 1570 Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Codex Guelf 206 Blank fol. 15r Tags: period art color Islamic 16th century sex worker male gnc manuscript needupdate #historicalimage #okaytouse

Wouter Pietersz. Crabeth II – Card Game Dutch, 1626 Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, accession number M.Ob.531 Source: http://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/dmuseion/docmetadata?id=11333 Tags: period art color brothel 17th century procuress sex worker prostitute needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Wouter Pietersz. Crabeth II – The Cheater Dutch, after 1626 RKD, img.nr. 1001131574 Young courtisane playing cards with two men at a table, an old procuress in the background Source: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/63299 Tags: period art color brothel 17th century prostitute sex worker needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Lucas Cranach the Elder -

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d._%C3%84._010.jpg

http://www.mbaa.besancon.fr/event/a-la-rencontre-dun-chef-doeuvre-du-musee-4/ — Tags: period art color century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Lucas_Cranach_d.Ä._-_Ungleiches_Paar_(Hessisches_Landesmuseum)[1]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Ungleiches_Paar_(Hessisches_Landesmuseum).jpg — Tags: period art color century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Lucas Cranach the Elder -

https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj17011114

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Ungleiches_Paar_(Veste_Coburg).jpg — Tags: period art color century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

needupdate Korean non-Western Asian sex act 5th-6th century? #historicalimage — https://www.museum.go.kr/site/eng/relic/recommend/view?relicRecommendId=166326

Johann Theodor de Bry
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-BI-5220 — period art black and white brothel needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Jehan de Grise – Romance of Alexander Flemish, 1338–1344 Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264 fol. 204r A margin scene possibly portraying negotiations between a man and a prostitute Source: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/ed1be783-b619-45fb-a69c-68359c969642 Tags: period art color 14th century manuscript needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

needupdate — period art color needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Nicolas de Nicolay – Cortigiana Turca from Le Navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella Turchia Istanbul, Turkey, 1580 Source: http://eng.travelogues.gr/item.php?view=40410 Tags: period art black and white Islamic Ottoman Turkish courtesan sex worker 16th century print needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Nicolas de Nicolay – Habit of a Turkish courtezan in 1568. Courtisane Turque. Ottoman Turkish, 1568 New York Public Library, UUID 510d47e4-7ece-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 Source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-7ece-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 Tags: period art color Islamic courtesan sex worker 16th century print needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Deutscher Meister #historicalimage

Deutscher-Meister-Der-Verlorene-Sohn-bei-den-Dirnen-INVNR-2813

https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/Deutscher-Meister/Der-Verlorene-Sohn-bei-den-Dirnen/9A6244B84F6BF0622CDF66B02798ACE4/ — Tags: period art color century needupdate

Painted hanging scroll depicting three men on a ferry listening to a courtesan on a boat playing a lute — Ding Yunpeng – Song of the Lute Chinese, 1585 Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 13.100.22 On a chilly autumn evening in A.D. 816, the poet Bai Juyi was seeing a friend off at a ferry stop when he heard the sound of a lute drifting across the water. Following the music, he came to a boat where an aging courtesan sat issuing her plaintive song across the darkening river. Moved by the melancholy dignity of the scene, Bai wrote “Song of the Lute” in honor of the courtesan. Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/35970 Tags: period art color Asian 16th century sex worker scroll painting #okaytouse

needupdate — Attributed to the Dokimasia Painter – cup Attic Greek, ca. 480 BCE British Museum, museum number 1836,0224.173 A bearded, naked man kneels to the right, his back resting against a large folded cushion decorated with pairs of black bands with a line between, his fingertips reaching for the ground to help his balance. A naked hetaira stands on the right and slowly eases herself backwards and downwards onto the man’s erect penis, one hand resting on his ribs, the other on his hip, steadying her progress. Her hair is cut short. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1836-0224-173 Tags: period art Vulci hetaera red figure pottery color ancient courtesan sex worker needupdate sex act #historicalimage redbubble

needupdate — Attributed to Douris – Terracotta kylix (drinking cup) Greek, ca. 480–470 BCE Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 52.11.4 The interior shows a man propositioning a youth. The composition is admirable for the easy juxtaposition of the figures, the characterization of the man by the purse and of the youth by the athletic equipment on the wall, and the emphasis placed on the hands in the center. Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254696 Tags: period art male sex worker prostitution ancient gay lgbt lgbtq lgbtqiap+ same gender color ancient needupdate Achillean #historicalimage #okaytouse

Pierre Dumonstier -

Charlotte_de_Beaune_madame_de_[...]Dumonstier_Pierre_btv1b10544142k

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb402816022

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CharlottedeBeauneSemblancay.jpg — period art mostly black and white 16th century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Albrecht Dürer -

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1934.344

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Offer_of_Love_(or_The_Ill-Assorted_Couple)_-_1934.344_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

British (English) School; Portrait of a French Courtesan; National Trust, Lytes Cary Manor; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/portrait-of-a-french-courtesan-101474

http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/254719 — Tags: period art color 16th century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

period art needupdate c 1-50 CE #historicalimage — Roman fresco from Pompeii. Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples), inv. nr. 27686 bacchanalmural Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erotic_scene_Pompeii_MAN_Napoli_Inv27686.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Napoli_MAN_27686 redbubble

A marble relief depicting two nude courtesans sit on a bed, while a standing nude man puts his arm around a third courtesan wearing a thin chiton — Marble relief called “Alcibiades and the Hetairai/Hetaerae,” part of the Farnese Collection, is now exhibited in the “Secret Cabinet” of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, inv. 6688 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alcibiade_ed_etere_(c.d.),_collez_farnese,_copia_romana_di_originale_ellenistico,_6688.jpg Tags: period art color ancient sex worker carving marble Roman courtesan Greek

Americas American non-Western needupdate sex act c 200 - 600 CE #historicalimage fellatio oralsex — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fellatiomoche.jpg https://www.museolarco.org/catalogo/ficha.php?id=4288

Nordic Norse Scandinavian c 1000 CE needupdate #historicalimage — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Figurine_(6880386385).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A4llinge_statuette

Flanders School – L’Enfant prodigue chez les courtisanes Flemish, around 1530 Musée Carnavalet, inventory number P619 Source: https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/l-enfant-prodigue-chez-les-courtisanes Tags: period art color prostitute sex worker 16th century prodigal son needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Flemish Master

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unknown_painter_-_The_Pleasures_of_the_Prodigal_Son_-_WGA23633.jpg — period art color needupdate #historicalimage

Attributed to Gales Painter – Kylix with a Symposion Scene Attic Greek, ca. 520–510 BCE Yale University Art Gallery, 1913.163 The symposion, a mainstay of Greek culture with its origins in the deepest past, served an important social function for men. Reclining diners told stories, talked politics, celebrated victories, and forged relationships. Inspired by Dionysos, the god of wine, such gatherings could easily, and often did, descend into drunken, bawdy revelry. The women in attendance were not respectable matrons of good households, but rather hetairai—professional entertainers and courtesans. Source: https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/1761 Tags: period art color ancient hetaera hetaira courtesan sex worker red figure needupdate sex act #historicalimage #okaytouse redbubble

Hendrick Goltzius – Courtesan Holland, 1606 Hermitage Museum, inventory number ОР-3742 Source: https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/02.+drawings/223694 Tags: period art mostly black and white Dutch 17th century sex worker needupdate #historicalimage #okaytouse redbubble

Urs Graf; Krieger mit Hellebarde, um eine Dirne werbend; 1516
Blatt: 21.6 x 15 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.78
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16549&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Urs Graf; Fähnrich und Dirne in Rückansicht; 1516
Blatt: 21.3 x 14.6 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.74
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16547&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Urs Graf; Krieger und Dirne in Landschaft; 1516
Blatt: 28.7 x 20.9 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.72
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16548&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Urs Graf; Dirne, das Kleid anhebend; 1516
Blatt: 22.1 x 14.5 cm
Bild: 19.7 x 12.1 cm; Feder in Schwarz, Pinsel in Weiss, Grau, Hellgrau und etwas Gelb, auf karminrot grundiertem Papier, an der Einfassung des roten Feldes etwas schwarzer Stift; Inv. U.X.67
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16554&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century red needupdate #historicalimage

Urs Graf; Dirne, einen Krieger zum Liebeshandel auffordernd; 1516
Blatt: 21.8 x 15.9 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.73
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16550&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Urs Graf; Dirne, Geld ausschüttend; 1517
Blatt: 17.4 x 15.6 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.80
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16561&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Urs Graf; Dirne mit grossem Schwert, zum Liebeshandel auffordernd; 1518
Blatt: 19.8 x 18.1 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.82.b
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16565&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Urs Graf; Lüsterner Alter und junge Dirne; um 1518
Blatt: 19.5 x 14 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.IX.29
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16566&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Urs Graf; Dirne in halber Figur; 1518
Blatt: 25.6 x 21 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. 1927.111
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16567&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Urs Graf; Reisläufer mit Hellebarde und Dirne; um 1520/21
Blatt: 15.5 x 10.5 cm; Feder in Dunkelgrau; Inv. U.IX.34
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16582&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Urs Graf; Dirne, die sich ein Bein entblösst; 1513[23]
Blatt: 14 x 7.2 cm
Bild: 13.9 x 7.1 cm; Radierung; Inv. X.2293
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=13353&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Urs Graf; Dirne mit Weinflasche; 1514
Blatt: 21.5 x 15.7 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.59
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=14311&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Urs Graf; Dirne, zur Liebe auffordernd; 1514
Blatt: 21.5 x 15.7 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.61
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16526&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Urs Graf; Armlose Dirne mit Stelzbein; 1514
Blatt: 21 x 15.9 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.I.58
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16540&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble disability

Urs Graf; Dirne mit Zweihänder; 1515
Blatt: 17.9 x 11.1 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.64
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16544&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Urs Graf; Alter Narr stellt einer nackten Dirne nach; 1515/16
Blatt: 19 x 14.3 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.105
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16545&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Urs Graf; Dirne mit Waage; um 1516
Blatt: 15.7 x 11.6 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.114
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16553&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Urs Graf; Drei Reisläufer und Dirne vor Seelandschaft; um 1520/21
Blatt: 29.6 x 21.6 cm; Feder in Grau; Inv. U.XVI.49
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16581&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Urs Graf; Dirne führt eine Maus spazieren; 1521 (?)
Blatt: 17.1 x 15.3 cm; Feder in Schwarz; Inv. U.X.99
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16587&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Urs Graf; Zwei Dirnen überfallen einen Mönch; 1521
Blatt: 28.2 x 20.8 cm; Feder in Schwarzbraun, über Vorzeichnung mit schwarzem Stift; Inv. U.X.92
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16588&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Urs Graf; Lagerdirne und Erhängter; 1525
Blatt: 32 x 21.5 cm; Feder in Schwarzgrau, mit dünnem Japanpapier hinterlegt; Inv. U.I.57
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16604&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Urs Graf, Kopie nach (?) / copy after (?) Monogrammist E.R. (E.IR.?); Krieger mit Lagerdirne; 1516
Blatt: 26.3 x 21.3 cm; Feder in Schwarz, über Vorzeichnung mit schwarzem Stift, aufgezogen; Inv. 1910.21
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=16680&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Urs Graf; Ein Landsknecht, ein Reisläufer und eine Prostituierte mit dem lauernden Tod im Baum; 1524
Blatt: 20.3 x 11.8 cm
Bild: 20.3 x 11.7 cm; Holzschnitt; Inv. X.2255
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=13326&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Gu Quzhai 顧曲齋 – Yang Guifei Dancing Chinese, 1573–1620 National Palace Museum Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dance_at_the_Pavilion_of_Scents.png Tags: period art black and white Asian Ming Dynasty courtesan sex worker 16th 17th century print needupdate #historicalimage

desaturated, auto adjusted, and 100 contrast in Pixlr #historicalimage — Gu Quzhai 顧曲齋 – Yang Guifei Dancing Chinese, 1573–1620 National Palace Museum Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dance_at_the_Pavilion_of_Scents.png Tags: period art black and white Asian Ming Dynasty courtesan sex worker 16th 17th century print needupdate

Red-figured Kylix: Naked Woman Using Olisboi Berezan Island, Greece, ca 520 BCE Hermitage Museum, inventory number Б-475 Source: https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/25.+archaeological+artifacts/1137870 Tags: period art color ancient hetaera hetaira courtesan sex worker needupdate sex act Greek #historicalimage #okaytouse redbubble

Hans Holbein d. J., Nachfolger / follower; Basler Dirne, einen Willkommenstrunk anbietend; um 1550
Blatt: 25.4 x 19.7 cm; Feder und Pinsel in Schwarz, grau laviert, aufgezogen; Inv. 1662.144

http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=42063&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Hans Holbein d. J., Nachfolger / follower; Basler Dirne mit Federbarett; um 1550
Blatt: 25.3 x 19.3 cm; Feder und Pinsel in Schwarz, grau und braun laviert, verso: schwarze Kreide; Inv. 1662.143

http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=42064&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Hans Holbein d. J.; Laïs Corinthiaca; 1526
HxB: 35.6 x 26.7 cm; Mischtechnik auf Lindenholz; Inv. 322
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=980&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art color century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Hans Holbein d. J.; Leaina vor den Richtern; um 1517/18

Blatt: 21.2 x 16.4 cm; Feder und Pinsel in Schwarz und Grau, grau laviert; Inv. 1662.159
http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=19398&viewType=detailView — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage

Daniel Hopfer -

https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/?query=search=/record/objectnumbersearch=[17595]&showtype=record#/query/b7706770-3f5f-4bfe-aac3-50e659ccf0fc — Tags: period art black and white century needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Painting depicting a crowd of nude and scantily clad people celebrating the ancient Roman festival Bacchanalia by drinking, feasting, and cavorting — Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick van Balen – A Bacchanal about 1608 ‑ 1616 Speed Art Museum, 1967.24 Source: https://www.speedmuseum.org/collections/a-bacchanal/ Tags: period art color 17th century painting bacchanalia festival celebration Dutch feast

needupdate — Janí – album; painting from Series: Album of Persian Costumes and Animals with Some Drawings by Kaempfer Isfahan School, Persian, 1684-1685 CE British Museum, museum number 1974,0617,0.1.11 Persian mullah with a bazaar prostitute; single-page painting on an album folio. An open book lies on the mullah’s lap, as he looks at the ambivalent lady smoking from a water pipe. The prostitute wears long robes that cover both her hair and body, with painted fingers and feet. She smokes the pipe in one hand, while holding a small cup in the other. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1974-0617-0-1-11 Tags: period art color Islamic 17th century sex worker manuscript needupdate #historicalimage redbubble

Page of an illuminated manuscript depicting a nude monk lounging with his arm around a sex worker, who holds a tankard, while three more sex workers wash another monk in a tub. — Jenský kodex [Antithesis Christi et Antichristi] Bohemian, ca. 1490-1510 Praha, Knihovna Národního muzea, IV.B.24 fol. 78v Source: https://www.esbirky.cz/predmet/180453 Source: http://www.manuscriptorium.com/apps/index.php?direct=record&pid=AIPDIG-NMP___IV_B_24_____3TQMIOE-cs Tags: period art color monks bath bathhouse sex workers prostitutes prostitution Czech 15th century manuscript

Painting of a crowd of people making merry in a brothel. Men grope the breasts of sex workers, an acrobat does a handstand on a stool, and in the background a man and a sex worker are climbing into bed. — Joachim Beuckelaer – Brothel 1562 Walters Art Museum, accession number 37.1784 Source: https://art.thewalters.org/detail/13900 Tags: period art color 16th century sex worker painting Flemish

Page of an illuminated manuscript depicting a man drawing a bow and a courtesan dancing — The Courtesan Kosa with the King’s Charioteer: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript Gujarat, India, 15th century Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 55.121.38.25 Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/75000 Tags: period art color sex worker Indian Rupkosa Kośā dancer #okaytouse

Kano Eitoku 狩野永徳 – The Chinese Emperor Minghuang and his concubine Yang Guifei, with attendants on a terrace Japanese, 16th century Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, accession number F1900.10 Source: https://www.si.edu/object/chinese-emperor-minghuang-and-his-concubine-yang-guifei-attendants-terrace:fsg_F1900.10 Tags: period art color Asian Muromachi or Momoyama period courtesan sex worker painting needupdate #historicalimage #okaytouse

Kano Mitsunobu 狩野光信 – Scenes from the life of the Ming Huang Emperor and Yang Guifei Japanese, late 16th-early 17th century Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, accession number F1901.21 Source: https://www.si.edu/object/scenes-life-ming-huang-emperor-and-yang-guifei-one-pair-f190120:fsg_F1901.21 Tags: period art color Asian Momoyama period courtesan sex worker painting needupdate #historicalimage #okaytouse

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