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Leda And The Swan (Galleria Borghese)
''Leda and the Swan'' is a tempera grassa on panel painting by an artist from the circle of Leonardo da Vinci, probably Cesare da Sesto. It dates to c.1510-1520 and is now in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. It and other versions at Wilton House and the Uffizi are considered the three best copies after Leonardo's own lost ''Leda and the Swan Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the sa ...''.{{Cite web, url=https://mcarte.altervista.org/leda-col-cigno-il-leonardo-perduto/, title=Article, language=it References category:1510s paintings category:Paintings in the Borghese Collection Galleria Borghese Paintings of children Italian paintings ...
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