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''Leda and the Swan'' is a
''Leda and the Swan'' is a tempera grassa
Tempera (), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera also refers to the paintings done ...
on panel painting by an artist from the circle of Leonardo da Vinci, probably Cesare da Sesto
Cesare da Sesto (1477–1523) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Milan and elsewhere in Italy.
Life
Cesare da Sesto was born in Sesto Calende, Lombardy. He is considered one of the ''Leonardeschi'' or artists influenced by Leo ...
. 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 ...
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