Series[UMA-SRE-20140045] MAJOR WORKSAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004500431Scope and ContentImages of artworks, some unidentified, depicting young boys, often as Cupid. The main content is a sequence of photocopied images with handwritten page numbers 3/1 to 3/22. Artworks are by artists and sculptors including Alessandro Allori, Parmigianino, Correggio, Bronzino, Bartholomeus Spranger, Lorenzo Lotto, Caravaggio, Giovanni Baglione, Guido Reni, Prud'hon, Giovanni Battista Foggini, Rodin, Benjamin West. Many images in the folder are copies of images sourced and held in other folders. Images are in formats of black and white and colour photocopies and print outs from web pages, with several copies of many images. Some sheets have annotations by GG. Folder includes press clipping in Italian, 'Revival sotto il cielo di Roma. A Massa Carrara', Antiquariato with photograph of Michelangelo sculpture of adolescent boy. The folder also contains laser print of typescript draft with word count, page numbered 33-53, with typescript heading "Love is a Boy. 6,651", unannotated. Subjects: The Boy; The Beautiful Boy; Cupid (Art); Masculine beauty (Aesthetics); Young men in art; Mythology in artAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0045 Unit 0038
Greer, Germaine, The Boy - Love is a Boy (c.2001-c.2002), [UMA-ITE-2014004500431]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 19/03/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/344401
