Four works commissioned by queer patrons (top to bottom):
1) A sculpture of Antinous created during the reign of his lover, Hadrian, Emperor of Rome.
2) The Lute Player (1596-1597) by Caravaggio commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte.
3) Philip IV in Brown and Silver (1623) by Diego Velázquez commissioned by King James VI and I.
4) The Sans Souci palace complex commissioned by Frederick the Great.
Image of the sculpture of Antinous appears under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License and is attributed to Wikimedia Commons contributor Jeje42.
Image of Sans Souci appears under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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