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Beauty or Monster? The Renewal of Interest in Hermaphrodites During the 18th Century

The interest of artists and art historians in hermaphrodites led to an aesthetic turn of sexual divergence during the Age of Enlightenment. Authors such as Winckelmann, Schiller or Lessing discovered the beauty of bodies which had been considered to be monsters in previous centuries. The numerous publications on the topic reflect not only the investigation of the corporal specifications of hermaphroditism but also the discovery of a phenomenon which was later on termed as 'psychical hermaphroditism'. The visual culture of the time supported this revelation with the popular portrayal of ephebic and feminized masculinity, mostly in neoclassical style.