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Pancrazio Buciunì ( 1879- 1963) was the Italian model, lover and heir of Wilhelm von Gloeden, the German photographer who settled in Sicily in the late nineteenth century and was significant in his documentation of Taormina and its beautiful young men. When Wilhelm von Gloeden arrived in the hilltop city of Taormina overlooking the Ionian Sea, he engaged the services of local boy, Pancrazio Buciunì, named after Pancras of Taormina. The young man was extremely handsome, with dark skin and large eyes. Von Gloeden nicknamed him "Il Moro" (The Moor) because of his dark complexion. Il Moro first became one of von Gloeden's models, then assistant, pupil and eventually lover. By some accounts the couple were truly in love. Buciunì looking after von Gloeden when he was sick, administering medications, getting special food from townspeople, preparing the saltwater baths that doctors prescribed. He also arranged for local youths to participate in the midnight parties von Gloeden threw for his guests. Von Gloeden would return to Taormina in 1919, as soon as WW 1 ended continuing to photograph until 1930 with Pancrazio Buciunì by his side. When von Gloeden died in 1931, Buciunì was named as his heir. When Pancrazio Buciunì died in 1963, some 800 remnants of Von Gloeden’s work remained with him and his descendants, who still remain in Taormina, have kept a part of his collection.

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"due ragazzi nudi nel chiostro"

photographed by Whilelm von Gloeden

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"Youths of Alexandria-Kazakos and Christos" (1949)

by Yannis Pappas (1913-2005)

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Paul Kodjo, Untitled (1970s)

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Mateusz Jaskot (2023)

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John Piper

Knowlton, Dorset, circa 1938

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Three bathers, 1913

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Hans Erni (1909 – 2015), Swiss artist: Pindar. Olympiques (1944)

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Yohji Yamamoto spring/summer 2002

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Ed Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Extreme, 1973. Gunpowder on paper, 36.8 x 58.4 cm.

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Riccardo Albiero.

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Halley's Comet with Venus May 13,1910 Lowell Observatory

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Hair by Tokyo Stylez