Vices - Sexual union between Leda and the swan (Zeus metamorphosed). Greek Art
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The image shows the sexual union between Leda and the swan (Zeus metamorphosed) driven by Eros.
I took this pic in one of my visits to Greek museums in 2013. The colors had been changed as a tribute to the Pantone Color of the Year 2018 | Ultra Violet.
Do you know this myth?
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 Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. In the W. B. Yeats version, it is subtly suggested that Clytemnestra, although being the daughter of Tyndareus, has somehow been traumatized by what the swan has done to her mother (see below). According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched.[1] In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris.
(Wikipedia)
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Beautiful photo I love the colour combination!
Thank you @juliakponsford! My intention was to bring the old myth to the contemporaneity. Actualy I'm working here with the green and violet, both of them are Pantone colors of the year 2017 and 2018.