Anton Hackenbroich, Neue Jugend (1937)

Henri Hudelet, "Des pêcheurs trouvent sur le bord de l'Ebre la tête d'Orphée " (1877)

Fernando Cabrera Cantó, Academia (Baco) (1893)

Leighton, Weaving the Wreath (c.1872)

Rolando Cubero, 'Eco de Sierpes'

The Lord of the Flies

 

Some nice macabre illustrations for William Golding's classic fantasy about boys and brutality and the darkness of men's hearts

Miloš Zet, Statue of youth at Prague Castle

 

Portaui lacrimis madidus te, nostra catella,

Quod feci lustris laetior ante tribus.

Ergo mihi, Patrice, iam non dabis oscula mille

Nec poteris collo grata cubare meo.

Tristis marmorea posui te sede merentem

Et iunxi semper manib(us) ipse meis

Morib(us) argutis hominem simulare paratam,

Perdidimus quales hei mihi delicias.

Tu, dulcis Patrice, nostras attingere mensas

Consueras, gremio poscere blanda cibos,

Lambere tu calicem lingua rapiente solebas,

Quem tibi saepe meae sustinuere manus,

Accipere et lassum cauda gaudente frequenter.

Magnus Enckell, 'Boy with Skull' (1893)

19th Century French School. Naked Boys in a River Landscape, playing around a Classical Urn

Alex Stoddard, "Born in the Weeds" (2021)

Die Heilige Stunde (The Holy Hour) by Ludwig Fahrenkrog (1911)

Hugo “Fidus” Höppener, Lichtgebet (1894)

 Hans Frohne, 'Knabe als Fortuna'

Arnaldo Casella Tamburini Jr., "Two studies of a seated nude boy playing the flute"

Tommy Liddell

'De puero et virgine', Liber medicinae ex animalibus, Netherlands or England 12th century

Andrey Shishkin, The Warrior's Path

Youth camp, Berlin, 1940

Desterrado (The Exile) - Carrara marble, 1872 - by the Portuguese sculptor António Soares dos Reis. This extraordinary work of art is in the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis in Porto. It is one of the finest sculptures I have seen in person, easily ranking with the works of Michelangelo and Bernini.

Francesco Scavullo, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger'

Max Klinger, 'And Therefore', from the 'Of Death, Part Two' series (1898) 

Carl Wendling, 'Bacchus Offering Wine in a Silver Bowl to a Marble Satyr Herm' (1880)

Ludwig Fahrenkrog, Vignette in his Baldur (1908)

'Human Energy'

Alex Stoddard, Self-portrait (2017)

William Bruce Ellis Ranken, Covent Garden (1930)

[H/T: William Bruce Ellis Ranken : Covent Garden, 1930 - Dans les diagonales du temps]

Making magic!

Fiedelbohrer zum Feuerbohren

An alternative sort of fire drill (tool) is of course what we in English call the hand drill, but which in German is referred to as the Quirlbohrer (the whisk drill) or simply the Feuerquirl (the fire whisk). According to Guido von List, it was with such a Feuerquirl that the Germanic god Mundilföri first kindled the universe.

Björge Stein, 'Jump'

David van der Linden, 'Another Day in Paradise'

Carl Mortensen, 'Before the Contest'

Daniel F. Gerhartz, 'Daniel jouant de la harpe' (2009)

Jeremy Sumpter in Peter Pan (2003)

Voenix

Flote on DeviantArt, 'I hate the sin'

Elihu Vedder, Marsyas Enchanting the Hares (1878)

Osmar Schindler, Germanic warrior with helmet

Modern copy of the Discophoros, outside the Gothenburg Museum of Art 

Walter Crane, 'The Bundle of Sticks'

Plinio Nomellini (1866–1943), Little Bacchus (c. 1940)

[H/T: Luis Márquez Romay.1899-1978 - Dans les diagonales du temps]