There’s also a smattering of surviving sketches beginning in 1504 for an original Leda painting that ... Leonardo Da Vinci’s sketches for Leda and the Swan (c. 1504-1506). Left, from ...

The original works by Leonardo and Michelangelo are missing, but copies are on display in galleries. Leda and the Swan is also a classic poem by William Butler Yeats, a major figure in 20th ...

An ancient fresco depicting an erotic scene from the Greek myth “Leda and the Swan” has been uncovered at the Pompeii archeological site in central Italy. CNN values your feedback 1.

Eventually the fresco is likely to be displayed in a museum Archaeologists at Pompeii have found an erotic Roman fresco depicting Leda and the Swan - a Greek myth that has inspired artists for ...

ROME — The ancient Pompeian fresco depicting the mythological scene of Leda and the swan was well preserved. It shows the rape of the queen of Sparta by Jupiter, the Romans’ Zeus, in the form ...

An ancient fresco depicting an erotic scene from the Greek myth “Leda and the Swan” has been uncovered at the Pompeii archeological site in central Italy.