Julius Caesar
Proving that "sexy is ageless" even at 2000+. Vici indeed.
 | Walter Sickert, about 1918
Walter Sickert is bad news in the best possible way. |
 | Commander in armor, Anthony van Dyck, c. 1625
Long lush hair, beautiful features, armor. Taking command. |
 | Vsevolod Garshin, Ilya Repin, 1884
Ok he seems like a mess but you know you'd want to help him edit his work, get him some new clothes and cook for him.
Adrien Brody would play him in the movie. |
 | Theodore Gericault, Horace Vernet, 1822-23
He painted severed limbs, ship wrecks and the insane and he had tuberculosis. Quite a handful. Then again he looked like this. |
 | Three Men and a Boy, le Nain brothers, 1647-8
Dark, sketchy, satiny long-haired fellows—lets have a beer and discuss. |
Young Man at Prayer, Hans Memling, 1487
This young man and Michael Sweerts, below, are vying for Most Sensitive guy  | | self portrait?, Michael Sweerts, 1656 |
 | Portrait of a man against flames, Isaac Oliver, about 1600
The flames, the shirt down to there, the jewelry, this guy is almost too showy for his own good.
Were women throwing their farthingales and drawers at him? |
|  | first cousins, the future Tsar Nicholas and King George V
Sporting fellows if ever there were! double date! |
 | Albert of Belgium, about 1917
Impeccably turned out for trench warfare; he can carry me to safety anytime. |
 | Anton Chekhov, 1890s
Weasely, but then again... |
 | a tailor, Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1565-70
Turbulence beneath the calm, no mere shopkeeper, he.
The heart of an artist strains beneath that finicky, micro-slashed doublet.
I see Jeremy Irons in the movie.
William Hogarth, Louis-François Roubiliac, c 1740
Hogarth is more of a runner-up but I do love this bust.
He's got a laddish humor and pugilistic intensity that wouldnt be out of place in a Guy Ritchie film. |
I'd been collecting them on and off, images of men that seem incredibly appealing to me despite the century or two (or several) that might separate us. It started with that photo of Chekhov. Something about the greatcoat and the reed slim cane and that cocky, short man sensibility... You may remember the electrifying Reverend Neale and the darkly dangerous Mr. William Sydney Mount from my Sartorialist, 1850s Edition post.
This is merely a trifling survey and part of on-going research... A good Regency-era Romantic is a must and I am certainly forgetting some entrancing 18th century fellow so please do let me know who should be on this list. [A Gentlemen's Edition will surely follow in the near future, with a selection of feminine pulchritude of the ages.]* [with apologies to People Magazine]
Where is William Powell you might ask? Or Kurt Cobain? or any number of too-recent, too-recognized, or too-well-publicized men who could surely otherwise be on a list of Sexiest Dead Men? Well, this is an inexact science so let me know what you think.PS: Someone asked why I skipped Lord Byron. I have to report that his reputation always seemed more attractive to me than he did. |
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