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The friend zone: art, music, films and more about platonic love

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Michelangelo fell in love with a young nobleman called Tommaso dei Cavalieri. This drawing is one of the gifts he gave him: it even has a note asking what Tommaso thinks of it.

But Michelangelo also wrote poems in which he insists his love is platonic, drawing on a philosophical conception of love as something that can raise you to the spiritual.

Michelangelo knew and understood Plato, even comparing himself with Socrates who Plato says lay all night beside his boyfriend, chastely.

Jonathan Jones***Boyfriends and husbands come and go in French director Agnès Varda’s thoughtful drama, One Sings, the Other Doesn’t; what stays constant is a decade-spanning friendship between two women involved in the feminist movement in 1970s France.

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