Leonardo da Vinci, Leda and the Swan, 1510-1515
Oil on panel, 112 x 86 cm
(Galleria Borghese, Rome)
TITLE: LEDA AND THE SWAN
DATE: 1508
DA VINCI'S AGE: 56
The myth languished until the late Middle Ages, when Humanist rediscovery of classical texts (in this case, Ovid’s Metamorphoses) led to its rejuvenation. Renaissance artists were hugely enthusiastic about Leda, no doubt in part because it allowed them to depict copulation, a most profound human act. The mind-boggling paradox here is that at the time it was acceptable to depict a woman fornicating with an animal, though not with a man.
Many versions echo the Leonardo example above—narrative time has been erased, so that Leda may embrace the swan and her children in a pastoral scene of familial affection. (Note: Leonardo also expressed his naughtier side in this Leda.) Corregio and Pontormo provide further examples of this tradition.
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アイトーリア王テスティオスの娘 レダ は、スパルタ王テュンダレオースの妻となったが、
白鳥に身をやつしたゼウスの子を産む。
神話に言寄せて、非日常の裸身を描く。真っ赤な背景紙の用意されたスタジオもまた、日常とは違う異次元の空間ではある。
抑止力のブレーキ 【わが郷】
