The Moon and Sleep (1894) by Simeon Solomon Framed or Unframed:Unframed Muscle Love challenges the idea

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The Moon and Sleep (1894) by Simeon Solomon Framed or Unframed:Unframed Muscle Love challenges the ideaSimeon Solomons The Moon and Sleep (1894) turns myth into a midnight confession. Held by Tate, this oil on canvas shows the moon goddess Luna visiting Endymion, the beautiful youth granted eternal sleep and eternal youth. The figures are mythic, not known sitters, but their softened profiles blur gender into dream. Solomon, a Jewish Pre Raphaelite artist, was socially punished after arrests and convictions for attempted sodomy. In that light, this