Can we have vintage thread? Starting withe the three Graces.

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>>2007878
I never realized this Dragon's Crown art was an homage.

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kinda /d/

>>2007882
#triggered

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>>2007892
Thunderthighs

>>2007893
That's cupid, doesn't count as a male.

>>2007900
So is Cupid and Psyche yuri?

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>>2007898
It's clear who of the ladies in the background is the artist's favorite.

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>>2007938

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>swag

>>2007961
I don't know who this "Diana" is but she's got a damn harem, and my undying respect.

>>2008267
You might know her better as Artemis. She's the Greek goddess of hunting, archery and virginity. She hung around forests with young virgin women as her companions and killed any man who claimed to be a better hunter than her or tried to peep on her bathing with her attendants.

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>>2008267

I'd love to see more anime edits of these pictures like >>2007925 does

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>>2007878

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>>2007878
Another version (author: Edward Burne-Jones)

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>>2008299
You're welcome.

>>2008345
pretty good

this thread is really interesting, thanks for sharing all this historical stuff.

>>2008302
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Bain_Turc,_by_Jean_Auguste_Dominique_Ingres,_from_C2RMF_retouched.jpg

>>2007915
>>2008302
>>2008533
I remember this one from my humanities textbook. It claims to be their best example of the 18th-19th century European Orientalism style, but I know why they really put it in. I think it was the thing that actually got me into yuri.

>>2007947
>>2007948
>>2007949
>>2007950

Excellent Taste

>>2008302

That one chick in the middle looks so unimpressed.

>>2008581
The brunette looks exactly like Jane Russell.

>>2008271
The original goddess of yuri, I see

>>2008271
>>2008605
the greeks and romans didn't consider girl on girl sex actual sex.
No penetration.
You can see the lack of creativity that they had

>>2008696
>No penetration
Ha

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>>2008271
Some say that she also really admired her onee-sama, Athena.

Oh wow. I have shipped Athena with Artemis, my two most favourites Greek gods, since the beginning of time, but never got any chance to muse on this with anyone. I'm glad this thread exists.

Not sure if you guys know ShizNat, but I envison Athena to be Shizuru and Artemis as Natsuki.

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>>2008818
>Not sure if you guys know ShizNat

>>2008830
I used to think nobody into yuri would not know Shiznat too, but surprise, surprise, I could not count the times I've seen "who's those?" everytime I post a Shiznat pic or mention them in a discussion here on /u/ in the past 4 years. And 12 out of 14 yurifags I knew from tumblr have never heard of Shiznat.

>>2008696
So the same as the Japanese then.

>>2008947
Why did you immediately think of the Japanese? I'm sure your own culture is no different.

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i need more baroque lesbians.

>>2008951
Do you think it might be related to the fact that yuri is Japanese?

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>>2008972
This actually looks like classicism or something later, not baroque (but I don't have a university title for this), I'd cautiously guess 19th century.

>>2007897
>/a/ at the back

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>>2008972
Hiro is that you? Haven't heard from you in a while! How is the roommate thing going with Sae?

>>2008951
No, I was been born in Judeo-Christian North America, so the culture here, until very recently, was that sodomy was the same evil regardless if it was female on female or male on male.

>>2008974
Ah, so you're baiting.

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>>2008972
>>2008982
Can you handle Peter Paul Rubens, anons? That style really emphasized the "cushioning" on women.

The Three Fates get such bad treatment.
I cant find any art where Atropos is not rendered as a wrinkled mutant. The Greeks never said she was a crone, just the oldest of the three, they are still supposed to be maidens.

>>2008983
Through history, christianity didn't care about lesbians that much. Sodomy is often related to male×male.

>>2009026
Yeah, women-women wasn't on the radar much because bible afaik doesn't mention it as much if ever. Upside of the strong androcentrism.

>>2008849
>tumblr
There's your problem right there.

>>2008977
By style, it looks like late 18th or early 19th century.

>>2008696
I'd imagine there was a difference of opinion. Aristophanes' speech in Plato's Symposium treats male and female homosexuality and heterosexuality as equally valid and innate qualities.

>>2009046
I don't think the Rubens women are really fat yet. Not what you asociate with obesity definitely (or to be an asshole, they are not in the unsexy chubby teritorry, although it is also the faces, that matters a lot).

They are above the norm for body fat, but still not that far. Of course, you can't take the current anorectic fads as the norm.

>>2009107
Why do they look like they have a stubble?

>>2009127

Because they're Indian

>>2009132
Well I guess out there somewhere, it is somebody's fetish.

>>2009127
It's shading, look at the noses and eyes.

>>2009160
Yea I get that, just honestly thought it was over-done.

>>2009175
Conventions can look weird when you are not accustomed.

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>>2009040
There's literally one line about lesbians in the bible, and it's written by Paul. There's more written in the bible against eating pork and chicken, yet I don't see any Christian hypocrites condemning bacon or mcnuggets.

>>2009254
Well that's because they only started to consider lesbianism as a issue in the late 19th century- or exactly the time suffragetts appeared.
So in North America lesbians went from being a non issue to being equally evil with homosexuals only when men became threatened with women having the vote and getting jobs outside the home.
It had little to do with actual sex practices of the time or historical Christianity, but if you were born and raised in North America in the XXth century this is the cultural prejudice you were surrounded with.

>>2007879
>>2007881
Wheee I absolutely dig these sorts of statues.

>>2009254
Plus, that one mention in Romans is really ambiguous and might just as well refer to prostitution or non-procreative hetero sex. Meanwhile, Jesus himself says in completely unambiguous language that you shouldn't re-marry after divorce, yet you'll be hard-pressed to find a televangelist without a couple of ex-wives.

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>>2009504
Orthodox>Catholics>Protestants

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>>2009968
>and friends
The Isle of Gal Pals

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>>2010269
i edited this one bescause there is a picture of a man which is a turn off.

>>2010270
I find a cut out box a bigger turn off, personally. Anon, it's roughly 200 years old, it doesn't deserve this.

Besides, it is a man that was not let in to partake on the dirty, full of envy and unsatisfied hornyness. But no, he can't be a woman, it is a karma payback for all the rewards of the patriarchy he was blissfully reaping, foolishly thinking he has won the game of life.

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>>2009968
Heh. Nice subtext.

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>>2010343
shh, shh. just post pretty paintings of lesbians that are at least 50 years old. or some shit. they can be japanese there's examples of that... shh

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>>2010270
I fixed it.

oh history,Y U so pornographic

The two-fingered nipple pinch has really gone out of style since the olden days.

>>2010007
I get a little sad whenever I see this image because I lost the YKK edit ages ago and no one seems to have it.

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>>2007881
These are really nice.

>>2008988
Rubens had style, I like those out of the blue fanservice nudes in the Marie de Medici paintings.

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Eh, forgot to attach.

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Is 1905 vintage enough for you?

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Finally found an Ottoman one.

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>tfw wrote an essay primarily about Sappho the other week
>tfw you will never be in her circle of "friends"

>>2008487
exactly

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>>2015166
Why? Because they looked like
<- this?

Is your essay posted online? I would love to read it.

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>>2029846
Hmm, that's a nice piece.

>>2021673
Oh god, my waifu. I would so go gay for her. She's was so pretty and doll like.

>>2030702
>I would so go gay for her.

I hate to break it to you, onee-sama, but it might be a bit late for that. You're posting on a gay porn board.

>>2030702
And smart and a humanitarian and shit too.

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>>2030543

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Egon Schiele, in case somebody didn't (and wanted to) know. Seems he had more of these than I recalled.

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Morocco 1840s

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Iran

>>2036323
Draining blood from her foot into a container? Is that how they donate blood there. Doesn't seem very sexual/yuri to me. To me it looks like one lady is there to donate blood by poking her foot, and the other is bring her oranges(?) to bring up her sugar level after donating (much in the way cookies and oranges are give to blood donators elsewhere).

>>2036591
Where did you come up with that? It says she's dyeing the sole of her foot red.

>>2036323
I recall that from some kama sutra illustrations too.

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>>2011163
http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=41179

Here is the rest of this comic where there is much "romantic friendship"

>>2030740
not every girl into yuri is gay.

>>2039172
Denial is a hell of a drug.

>>2038377
I want to buy a print of that and frame it on my wall.

>>2039178
you can just like, cute stuff, graceful art, more emotionally engaging stories, and smut that goes beyond inandoutinandoutandyouredone

>>2015166
I know that last feel so much. ;_;

>>2038377
How come that isn't as well know as the other great paintings?

>>2048366
Because motive aside, it is quite lacking compared to other great paintings?

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>>2050997
This is a cropping of a picture with guy (there is few more women of which just these two do each other), but I remember I liked it when finding it ages ago.

>>2051000

Is she fucking shooting a dildo into her vagina

>>2050995
where do you find all these?

>>2056082
Evidently from tumblr.

>>2053186
Yes.

>>2009082
Well, Socrates WAS executed for "corrupting the youths"...

>>2051008
Wow, boob in vag, Quite the position there

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Not vintage, but I like this painting.

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Vintage you say

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vintage says you

>>2061641
Why is she pointing?

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Because this is /u/, I'm going to reject the context of that painting and pretend that it's sufficient for the ladies to be within spitting distance.

>>2061878
>"You had better be givin' her proper tongue now, no slackin Maryanne."

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>>2061878
Looks to me like she is feeling embarrassment or jealousy, so to express her emotion she is pointing and laughing.

>>2051008
Doesn't look quite comfortable.

>>2061631
How very White Rose.

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>>2021673
>Is your essay posted online?
No it was just for some short 2k word, second year Uni coursework essay, got a 15/20 from my professor. The title was "How far is it possible or desirable to try to distinguish between individual feelings and traditional patterns of thought (including those of myth) in interpreting the treatment of 'love' in archaic lyric?" and around half of it focused on Sappho and discussed homosexual thought and feeling. It got a bit rushed around that part because it was only a 2k word essay but I read some really interesting works when writing it.

If you really want to read up on stuff like that, "Sappho's Sweetbitter Songs: Configurations of Female and Male in Ancient Greek Lyric" by Lyn Hatherly Wilson is really good if you can get it in your local library. I suppose I could upload a PDF of the essay if you really want, it at least has a good bibliography.

>>2009263
Education +1

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How about some Eve and Eve?

>>2084228
Eve and Lilith.

>>2084228
Henoch 2:16 says the snake is called Steve.

>>2079562
Something about this I really like. Not sure if it's the lighting or the expression of the girl in the background.

>>2084228
You know, they say because both women ate the forbidden fruit against God's will, God attached the forbidden fruits on both of their vaginas and that's how clits came to be.

>>2091033
>[citation needed]

>>2091033
>forbidden
But God loves yuri.

>>2007892
God I can't wait for the new Park Chan-Wook film.

>>2007961
>that feel when there is no yuri anime about a goddess and her harem of priestesses

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>>2097915
ThatsS my headcanon about the ending of Baldur's Gate II/ToB. Inherit the powers of gof of murder, repurpose to make CHARNAME goddess of lesbianism.

>>2103765
*god of murder, sorry for typos (bloody tablet)

Of course, I played that with a party made of all the available woman characters.

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>>2007878

I wish more vintage lesbian films existed. Classic films are so hetero.

I saw both versions of Madchen in Uniform and they were nice, but the teacher/student romance was creepy. I really, really like The Children's Hour but it has a depressing ending.

>>2008849

Shiznat is a top 25 /u/ pairing. I swear the Mai fandoms are 75% Shiznat and 25% everything else

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Hope this is vintage enough

>>2050989
That's hot

>>2113455
I'm curious when and where that photo took place

>>2113462
Why do all ladies in old timey photos have the same face?

>>2116867
Not really. It's probably the same sort of illusion that makes all asians look similar to westerners because some unfamiliar traits dominate the perception for them, overweighting individual differences (which become dominant when perceiving various caucasian faces).

>>2116837
Probably the 1920s, judging by the hairstyles and the car. If somebody can identify the model of the car, it might provide a clue for the location.

>>2116867
Fashion trends in makeup. I'd also argue that the Roaring Twenties were the earliest time when the mass production of makeup and advertising for makeup made it both possible and desirable for all women to look like each other.

Are there any vintage lesbian artwork from Africa or Latin America?

>>2116867

Everyone in the 20s wanted to be Clara Bow.

I wish there was more info on lesbian, bi, and probably-either-one historical figures. I just love lesbian period pieces and learning about royalty. I remember this film about some French queen who fell for a woman but I haven't seen it yet.

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>>2113455

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I hope this is vintage enough

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Why are lesbian pulp fiction titles so cheesy and good?

>>2127868
I really love that "finest in" there.

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جرّاح نامه. Surgery Treaty, translated from the original Persian, which was composed during the reign of the Mongols of Persia with the title of جراحيۀ خانیه "Imperial Surgery".
1466 AD, Ottoman, BNF Supplément turc 693.

>>2007886
Source? And no, reverse image search is useles.

>>2007886
HAHAHA those shoes on the right.

>>2009254
>The shadow world of female homosexuality
>Written by a male; forward by a male

How could this guy even investigate the "casual bar pick-up" or "elaborately planned orgies"? He'd have to cross-dress like a fucking champ to even get in the door.

>>2008267
>>2008271
>>2008818

Any decent Artemis fanfic?

>>2134646
No one wants to hear about your dick on /u/.

>>2134617
Maybe he had friends who were lesbian?

>>2134556
Zanan-nameh by Fazil-Yildiz

Also more on Turkish Baths:

>CONSTANTINOPLE, 1560

>...THE GREAT MASS OF WOMEN use the public baths for females, and assemble there in large numbers. Among them are found many girls of exquisite beauty, who have been brought together from different quarters of the globe by various chances of fortune; so cases occur of women falling in love with one another at these baths, in much the same fashion as young men fall in love with maidens in our own country. Thus you see a Turk's precautions are sometimes of no avail, and when he has succeeded in keeping his wives from a male lover, he is still in danger from a female rival! The women become deeply attached to each other, and the baths supply them with opportunities of meeting. Some therefore keep their women away from them as much as possible, but they cannot do so altogether, as the law allows them to go there. This evil affects only the common people; the richer classes bathe at home...

>>2134776 Continued

>It happened that in a gathering of this kind, an elderly woman fell in love with a girl, the daughter of an inhabitant of Constantinople, a man of small means. When her courtship and flatteries were not attended with the success her mad passion demanded, she ventured on a course, which to our notions appears almost incredible. Changing her dress, she pretended she was a man, and hired a house near where the girl's father lived, representing herself as one of the slaves of the Sultan, belonging to the class of cavasses; and it was not long before she took advantage of her position as a neighbour, cultivated the father's acquaintance, and asked for his daughter in marriage. Need I say more? The proposal appearing to be satisfactory, the father readily consents, and promises a dowry proportionate to his means. The wedding-day was fixed, and then this charming bridegroom enters the chamber of the bride, takes off her veil, and begins to chat with her. She recognises at once her old acquaintance, screams out, and calls back her father and mother, who discover that they have given their daughter in marriage to a woman instead of a man.

>The next day they bring her before the Aga of the Janissaries, who was governing the city in the Sultan's absence. He tells her that an old woman like her ought to know better than to attempt so mad a freak, and asks, if she is not ashamed of herself? She replies, "Tush! You know not the might of love, and God grant that you may never experience its power." At this the Aga could not restrain his laughter; and ordered her to be carried off at once, and drowned in the sea. Thus the strange passion of this old woman brought her to a bad end.

>From Life & Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, C. Kegan Paul & Co., London, 1881, pp. 231 - 232.

>>2134776
>>2134780
Thank you.
>1560
Pity. A bit after my field of interest (circa 1265).
Have two links because no obvious yuri in them, just girls playing chess together in transparent clothing
http://historicgames.com/alphonso/prblms/F18R.html
http://historicgames.com/alphonso/prblms/F56R.html

>>2135036
>http://historicgames.com/alphonso/prblms/F56R.html
Is this like a Medieval Spanish Saki?

>>2134780
Bad ending. But is it still a win for her since she almost married her?

>>2135045
>Medieval Spanish Saki
Not quite. But I'm oh SO stealing that line.
It's a book written by King Alfonso X the Wise of Castille regarding the rules and known cheats (I told you, he was a wise one) of games - chess, dice and jacks, ilustrated with examples of people playing them. The artists made several... interesting depictions of female clothing.
Have another: http://historicgames.com/alphonso/prblms/F54R.html

>>2008299
As I'm unfamiliar with Saki, I can't slap /u/-relevant Saki quotes over them. Feel free to.

>>2050991
Looks like she's being fucked by a deflated blowfish.

>>2116867

I have gotten into films from the 1910s and 1920s and I admit, it's hard to distinguish actresses except for major faces like Theda Bara or Clara Bow. You're either a flapper or an Ophelia-looking girl. It was likely a mix of fashion trends and due to us not being able to tell the differences between people due to being unused to them.

>>2134780

Uh huh... That was interesting. I expected her to be killed but it was still surprising.

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Does Frollo count?

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This thread also needs a little Klimt.

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Loutrec bein all romantic n shit.

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And last little bump in hopes this'll stay alive, here's a great Mossa piece.

>>2070965
Ah shit I repeat posted this, sorry anon! It's just so sweet.

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Might as well just dump the rest of my fave Frollos.

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Gonna leave this off with a Beardsley work.

Appreciate the dump.

thank you all

Very nice thread

>>2053186
>>2056451
No. She's pushing the dildo with her foot and letting the bow come out on its own so she only has to push it.

>>2158022
That is ridiculous but freaking clever

>>2051003
smol