Episode #077
The images you hear us talking about in Episode 77 - Swanning Around.
Trigger warning! If you are one of our regular listeners, you know we don’t hold back much. However, the images from this episode might be potentially disturbing for some as this myth deals with the topic of rape. While that topic is prevalent in mythology, and nothing new to our discussions, these images do get more graphic than usual. Other Jenn is angry that this particular myth is so widely covered in historical artwork, and by some damn big names. But that’s a topic for a whole different podcast.
We start with…. Helen Over-Easy! coughcoughCaitsJokecoughcough
Helen hatching from the egg, Apulian red-figure bell krater C4th B.C., Bari Provincial Archaeological Museum
Leda and the Swan, Apulian red-figure loutrophoros C4th B.C., The J. Paul Getty Museum
Leda and the Swan, Greco-Roman mosaic C3rd A.D., Cyprus Museum
Leda and the Swan, Greco-Roman mosaic from Spain
Roman oil lamp, 1st century AD. Say it with us: F*ck the Romans!
Leda and the Swan, ancient fresco from Pompeii.
Leda and the Swan, a 16th-century copy after a lost painting by Michelangelo (National Gallery, London)
Leda and the Swan, copy by Cesare da Sesto after a lost original by Leonardo, 1515–1520, Oil on canvas, Wilton House, England.
Wait a minute. How many swans were there? Other Jenn didn’t see these extra swans until posting this image here in larger format! Cait has some explaining to do.
Leda and the Swan by Correggio.
Paul Cézanne's Leda and the Swan
Leda and the Swan by François Boucher, 1740, oil on canvas.
Leda and the Swan by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1895
Leda and the Swan, by Massimiliano Soldani, 1725
Leda and the Swan by Fernando Botero, 1996