Leda and the Swan
1550 · Engraving plate
Dimensions (40.1 x 30.2 cm)
Leda is entwined with Jupiter, disguised as a swan, with a large egg at lower left. Created by Michelangelo and engraved by Cornelius Bos. The plate is signed by Michelangelo in the bottom right corner. The printing on the bottom roughly translate as "This beautiful Leda, the swan is that Jupiter / compression, it gives birth to twins who believes the egg, / From the twins Pollux, Castor and his brother, / From this beautiful Helen bursting forth."
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About this artwork
Leda and the Swan (1550) by Michelangelo, engraving plate.
About Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known best as simply Michelangelo , was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
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