We’re not entirely sure we see the resemblance, but GQ Italia certainly didn’t call us before picking Pietro Boselli as their statue of “David” coverboy.
“My first @gqitalia cover!” the math-teacher-turned-supermodel celebrated on Instagram.
“Printed on lenticular paper,” he continued, “superimposing Michelangelo’s masterpiece ‘David’, the ultimate symbol of Renaissance and classical perfection. I am humbled. Thank you to the team behind this fashion editorial shot in 3D for the first time.”
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ThinkPlease
“David” is an eternal art classic. Pietro is the hunk du jour. That’s very nice and he’s very pretty, but there’s really no comparison.
David will still be an eternal art classic when Pietro is long forgotten.
masterwill7
Oh god the drama in this comment!!! But yes indeed!!
butchqueen
THANK YOU!!!
Catholicslutbox
I wish he’d share he steroid regimen
lovetennis
Yes but David was supposedly just a teenager when Michelangelo sculpted him, so he could very well have turned out to be much more muscular than Pietro is now as an adult. And David sure wouldn’t have had access to steroids. He would have developed (perhaps in several ways) by sheer hard work.
Harley
IDK. I need to see the full picture to be sure.
Chrisk
Ha. Yeah, if were truly comparing eggplant to eggplant since David is the only one not wearing anything.
Although that’s not much of a tough comparison to beat.
skeldare
I’d have to see Pietro nude in order to properly judge.
dhmonarch89
Have to chose David- he actually shows dick…Pietro never will, unless his shitty merch line really goes off the rails….After he stabbed the gay community in the back pimping for Saudi Arabia- didn’t we cancel this jerk…oh, right- he’s hot, so he gets 563 chances.
Chrisk
Ha. Thought of that. He sure didn’t like it when called out on it either. As if everyone does it.
He was just a hired pretty boy who doesn’t give a shit who signs the check as long as it doesn’t bounce. The hypocrisy is that’s it’s gay men that are buying his shit while he shakes his ass for cash for a place that executes them and journalists who speak the truth.
wikidBSTN
NOTHING and NO ONE beats THE DAVID.
Seriously – you have to see it in person – and not a copy, no matter how exact the copy is supposed to be. There is “literally” something mystical about that statue.
lord.krath
I can’t believe mos are actually debating this. I’m sure it wasn’t a real question. Classic art versus living model? Come on.
I do have to say that I also find the disdain for Pietro surprising. It isn’t his fault. He has brains and brawn. Why tear him down for that and for what a magazine printed?
Oh, that’s right. Doling our shade is our subcultural pastime.
PsychOpine
You are correct on that final statement. Lots of bitter old queens!
lmdoane55
So right @lord.krath bitches are going to be bitches and wasn’t it really a rhetorical question? xx
CurtisIsTheOne
Really, YOU can’t see a reason for disdain of Pietro? How about his work in Saudi Arabia where being gay can get you executed? Or dismembered if you’re a journalist. Sorry, he doesn’t get a pass just because he’s pretty.
JoshGL
I dunno…straight Pietro makes his living posting pictures for a predominantly gay audience.
Kinda gross that so many people put him on a pedestal.
Alex_S
And Queerty writes about him all the time. But again gay media has no selfrespect whatsoever.
lmdoane55
@JoshGL Hahahahahaha we all adore a beautiful body so who cares if he is straight,gay or whatever
TonyPSP
Pietro got uglier all of sudden. Reading up on him hasn’t helped. Either him or Ryan Philipe are as attractive. They do a good job at naming why places like Saudi Arabia should be boycotted but fall really short at naming reasons we should start to embrace them. Both Pietro and Philipe sight we should not forget Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered, women are objectified as there are many reports of during the MDL music festival and the continued abuses that have been reported and documented recently. When asked why we should be supporting the Saudis now all either one had to offer is that “things are changing” and we need to give them a chance. They failed to offer any concrete examples as to what the Saudi government has done to change the horrible treatment of their people.
Aires the Ram
David, hands down.