art.wikisort.org - Painting
Leda and the Swan is a lost tempera on canvas painting by Michelangelo, produced in 1530, but now only surviving in copies and variants. The work depicted the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan.
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (August 2022) |
| Leda and the Swan | |
|---|---|
 A copy of Michelangelo's Leda and the Swan attributed to Rosso Fiorentino - National Gallery | |
| Artist | Michelangelo |
| Year | 1530 |
History
In 1512, Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara went to Rome to reconcile with Pope Julius II, who had excommunicated him in the summer of 1510 for his alliance with Louis XII of France against the Republic of Venice. Julius absolved him and Alfonso spent a few days in Rome before returning to Ferrara. On 11 July, he visited the Sistine Chapel, where Michelangelo was completing the ceiling. He climbed the scaffolding and had a long and admiring conversation with Michelangelo, who promised him a painting.
Several years passed without the commission being formalised until Michelangelo had to be in Ferrara in 1529 to inspect its city walls as "governor general of fortifications" for the Florentine Republic, ready for an expected Imperial siege. On that occasion the Duke held Michelangelo to his promise and, according to Condivi and Vasari, he produced the work when he returned to Florence in August 1530, after the city's fall, perhaps using the time he had to spend in hiding. It was a square work in tempera, representing Jupiter as a swan making love to a reclining Leda (based on a composition from ancient Roman gems and seals), an egg, and Castor and Pollux as children.
The painting was completed by mid-October 1530, but Alfonso described it as a "little thing" in Michelangelo's hearing and so he refused to hand it over. The work and some of the preparatory drawings were acquired later (either as a purchase or a gift) by Antonio Mini, who took it to France in 1531. In 1532, he left the painting to Francis I of France, who later sent it to the Palace of Fontainebleau.
The best known copy of the painting is attributed to Rosso Fiorentino and hangs in the National Gallery in London,[1] with others in the Gemäldegalerie (Dresden), the Gemäldegalerie (Berlin), and the Correr Museum in Venice. The Casa Buonarroti in Florence holds not only a copy, but also a preparatory drawing of studies for Leda's head, held to be drawn by Michelangelo.[2] There are several prints copying the work, the most faithful of which is thought to be the one by Nicolas Béatrizet, which also shows Castor and Pollux.
See also
- List of works by Michelangelo
References
- "National Gallery article on its copy".
- "Page on the site of the Casa Buonarroti". Retrieved 2017-08-04.
Further reading
- (in Italian) Ettore Camesasca, Michelangelo pittore, Rizzoli, Milano 1966.
| |||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||
На других языках
[de] Leda (Michelangelo)
Die Leda ist eines der bekanntesten Motive von Michelangelo Buonarroti und der italienischen Renaissance. Das Original ist nicht erhalten, die Kopie der National Gallery stammt aus dem Kreis von Rosso Fiorentino.- [en] Leda and the Swan (Michelangelo)
[fr] Léda (Michel-Ange)
Léda ou Léda et le Cygne, en italien La Leda[1], est un tableau perdu de Michel-Ange vers 1530, connu par des études préparatoires de sa main et par des copies.[it] Leda e il cigno (Michelangelo)
Leda e il cigno è un perduto dipinto a tempera su tavola di Michelangelo Buonarroti, databile al 1530. Del dipinto restano oggi alcune copie e varianti.Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии