Albrecht Durer, The Men’s Bathhouse”, Woodcut, 1496, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Men’s Bath is an unusual print for its time since this is the only graphic image that was made for sale of naked men in such a scene. Even more odd is the fact that these men are depicted naked in public, in a city that religiously regulated clothing down to the number of pearls allowed to be on any garment and where all the inhabitants needed to be fully covered.
It is believed that the figure with only a risqué codpiece covering his genitals and playing the flute is Dürer himself because he is bearded. The two men in the foreground are believed to be the very sexually permissive Paümgartner brothers, Stephen and Lucas, who Dürer depicted in the Paümgartner Altar.