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LEONARDO da Vinci: Leda and the Swan

🖼 Leda and the Swan, 1505-10
Oil on panel
69.5 × 73.7 cm
Salisbury, United Kingdom

Graceful curves and mythological drama converge as Leda embraces the swan, rendered through Leonardo's masterful sfumato technique. The composition revolutionized how Renaissance artists depicted sensuality and classical transformation, influencing generations of painters through its psychological intimacy and formal elegance.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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