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[–] DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Leonardo.

I have a long held theory based on the history of the Mona Lisa (Being recognized as a genderswapped self portrait he literally entitled "the Happy one" carried around by the artist and gifted to his gay lover after death) that the artist was trans.

I would absolutely love to potentially verify this because the idea that one of the most famous paintings in the world has been a trans gender affirming portrait in plain sight of art historians this whole time with nobody cluing in and writing a proper paper about it - is just kind of the best.

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Leonardo seems the most interesting of the bunch.

Artist, scientist, inventor, wizard appearance gay icon all in one package.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 hours ago

Literally a Renaissance man.