Cheek kissing is an informal greeting or social kissing gesture to indicate friendship, family relationship, perform a greeting, to confer congratulations, to comfort someone, or to show respect.
Judas cheek kissing Christ. Oil on canvas by Caravaggio, 1602
A Little Coaxing (1890, William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
French president Charles de Gaulle kisses Argentine president Arturo Illia in 1964.
Lebanese singer Fares Karam responds to his audience request to kissing Rita Harb after receiving Hazmieh festival award on July 20, 2012. Harb described it later as a "Brotherly Kissing" and gave him the best wish.
The socialist fraternal kiss was a special form of greeting between socialist state officials. The act demonstrated the special relationship that exists between Communist countries, consisting of an e
Cheek kissing
…is a standard greeting among friends, while male–male cheek kisses are less common. Eastern European communist leaders often greeted each other with a socialist fraternal kiss on public and state occasions. In a cheek kiss, both persons lean forward and either lightly touch cheek with cheek or lip with cheek. Generally the…
Socialist fraternal kiss exchanged between Walter Ulbricht and Leonid Brezhnev in 1967
Tsar of Russia Nicholas II gives a kiss of peace to a soldier, 1916.
My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, a graffiti painting on the Berlin Wall depicting Soviet statesman Leonid Brezhnev kissing East German statesman Erich Honecker