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In the inventories, the famous painting of Leda and the Swan was for three hundred years (until 1893) thought to be by Sodoma, or a copy by the latter. Its attribution is still doubtful, but from recent research into wills it is now thought to be an unfinished painting that was in Leonardo's house at the time of his death (1519) and inherited by his pupil Salai who reworked it. X-rays have revealed another composition beneath this one depicting Leda's four children (Castor, Pollux, Helen and Clytemnestra) emerging from the swan's eggs. Leda with her arms around the swan (Jupiter) in an elegant curving pose, her hair partially escaping from her plaits, set against the spacious river landscape, was most certainly conceived by Leonardo, but executed by different artists.

"Leda and the swan", also known as "lida and the swan", is a highly prized work of leonardo Da Vinci, always with him, moved to France in his old age, and finally left in Paris. The oil painting subjects derived from the Greek myth story: Sparta countries Wang Tingda rui Russian deported from weng brothers had families to go abroad, after long-term displacement, he went to Mr Anatolia in central Greece, Mr King of Anatolia tesla theo course hero, not only take the tyndareus, and his daughter -- the Greek famous beauty leda married him. Leda was a sea nymph, and when tyndarius married leda, he was so proud that he forgot to sacrifice himself to Aphrodite that he was revenged by Aphrodite.

Tyndareus places leda on a very quiet island, almost isolated from the rest of the world, with only a few female companions to accompany her. One day, while leda was bathing in a lake, Aphrodite turned Zeus into a swan and herself into an eagle. Swan Zeus was Aphrodite chase to the lake, hovering on the lake, a trance see beautiful leda, in love, have descended into lida, leda it strong and lovely, cuddle arms caressing it, who knows, this is the elaborate Aphrodite, leda conceived and gave birth to four eggs, hatching four children angel. In this painting by leonardo Da Vinci, there are four little children lying on the ground with broken shells and looking up at their mother. These are the four eggs.

In "leda and the swan," the nude leda takes center stage, her right hand wrapped around the goose's neck. She is plump and wears a Mona Lisa smile. The swan held leda close with its right wing and looked up at her face as if it were for a kiss. Leda ducked shyly away from her right shoulder. Against the background is a dark ancient ruin, which sets off lida's flawless white jade body. The theme of the work is the image and value of human reproduction.

The painter leonardo Da Vinci eulogized the human desire and pursuit of sexual love, and told the world who suffered from the brutal medieval asceticism: human sexual activities are natural, but also the guarantee of human reproduction and the prosperity of the race. In Da Vinci's time, the affirmation of sexual value is impossible to further pursue and praise aesthetics and sexual love except for preserving life and increasing population. For males who gave birth to life, they could only be replaced by myths and animals. Only in this way could the works be easily accepted by people at that time.




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