[Above: Greek water jar depicting the myth of Leda and the Swan made in Apulia, South Italy about 330 BCE and attributed to the painter of the Louvre Terracotta.]

[Above: A mosaic from Cyprus (circa 3rd century AD).]

[Above: Leda and the Swan, 1548.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Cornelis Bos after the lost original by Michelangelo.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Francois Edouard Picot (1786-1868).]

[Above: Leda and the Swan, a copy by Cesare da Sesto after a lost original by Leonardo da Vinci, oil on canvas.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan, a copy by Giovanni Francesco Melzi after the lost original by Leonardo da Vinci, oil on canvas.]

[Above: From 1532.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Cornelis le Mair.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Andrea del Sarto.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Francois Boucher, 1740.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Correggio.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Eugenio Cajés (copy of Correggio).]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Hans Makart.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Georg Pencz.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Francois Edouard Picot.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Franchesko Mola.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Michele Rocca.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Heinrich Lossow.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Giovanni Rapiti.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by P.P. Rubens.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan, a 16th-century copy after a lost painting by Michelangelo.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Tomasz Rut.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Louis Icart.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Paul Prosper Tillier.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by León Comerre.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Salvador Dalí.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Adolph Ulrich Wertmuller.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1895.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Ulpiano Checa.]

[Above: Leda and the Swan by Bertalan Székely.]

  • The theme of Leda and the Swan has also been used in photography since its invention...

    [Above: This is by Gaudenzio Marconi, 1865]

  • Leda and the Swan has also been carved into stone as well...

    [Above: By Jules Franceschi (1825-93)]

    [Above: By Auguste Clésinger, 1864.]