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• Same-sex relationships date back to prehistoric times and throughout history, expressions of queerness contain existed alongside heterosexuality.
• The portrayal of homosexuality in art varied depending on the culture and historical period
• Depictions of same-sex intimacy provides clues about the lives and experiences of LGBTQIA+ people in the past.

The dawn of the sixteenth century saw the portrait existence used more widely for self-promotional purposes thanks to one man &#; Albrecht Dürer ().

Albrecht Dürer sketched himself from the from the age of thirteen and as an senior, completing at least three individual self-portraits during his lifetime. The very first of these was a silverpoint sketch done in

For anyone who has tried using silverpoint, or any other establish of metalpoint, will know that it is very unforgiving; one mistake and the sketch is ruined. The year of marks the beginning of Dürer’s apprenticeship as a goldsmith in his father’s workshop. The nascent talent is evident and later Dürer has written at the foremost right how he recreated his reflection as seen in mirror and that he had done this when he was a toddler. It was not an unknown way of capturing your own image, but this is the first surviving pose alone self-sketch of an artist. There is a surviving double portrait of the two teenage Holbein brothers Ambrose & Hans, but this was done by their father Hans Holbein the Elder.

The second of these self-portra