• 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, a Spartan queen.
  • Norman Alfred William Lindsay (1879–1969) Leda and the Swan Ink on paper 15 x 23.5cm Private collection. ... More Leda and The Swan.
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    a painting of a woman with an animal in the foreground and two other people around her. ... Jacopo Pontormo Leda and the Swan, 1512-13.
  • The picture known as Leda and the Swan depicted a nude standing Leda cuddling the swan, with the two sets of infant twins, and their huge broken egg-shells.
  • It has sex with the mortal girl Leda, who becomes pregnant. The painting shows a naked Leda seated with the Swan on top of her.
  • Hugely evocative of the violence of the act is Cy Twombly’s abstract version of Leda and the Swan which sold for $52.9 million at Christie’s in 2017.
  • Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? W. B. Yeats, “Leda and the Swan” from The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A New Edition, edited by Richard J. Finneran.
  • "Leda and the Swan" depicts an act of rape. The poem’s graphic imagery leaves no doubt that Zeus, in the form of a swan, violently assaults Leda.
  • The poem, ‘Leda and the Swan’ by William Butler Yeats, talks about the story of Greek mythology, the Copulation of Zeus (or Jupiter), and Leda.
  • Leda and the Swan is a story from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda.