LGBTQ Individuals and Academics of the Renaissance Period
From QueerBio.com
France
- Jean-Baptiste Lully - composer
Germany
- George Frederic Handel - composer
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann - historian
Great Britain
- Alan Bray - activist and renaissance scholar
- Sir Philip Sidney - poet
- John Addington Symonds - writer
Italy
- Pietro Aretino - poet and playwright
- Antonio Canova - sculptor
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - painter
- Arcangelo Corelli - musician and composer
- Leonardo Da Vinci - artist, inventor, engineer, architect
- Marsilio Ficino - academic
- Buonarroti Michelangelo - painter
The Netherlands
- Francois Duquesnoy - sculptor
- Jerome Duquesnoy - sculptor
United States
- Gary Ferguson - academic
- James M. Saslow - academic
