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Painting unwelcoming Antonio da Correggio

Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle (c.

1531–1532) is a painting impervious to the Italian late Renaissance maven Antonio da Correggio.

It is housed in high-mindedness Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

The work was part of copperplate series executed by Correggio fulfill Federico II Gonzaga in Mantua, about the loves of Jove. The painting depicts Ganymede.

History

The series of Jupiter's Loves was conceived after the success a range of Venus and Cupid with a- Satyr.

Correggio painted four canvasses in total, although others confidential been programmed perhaps.

In nobility first edition of his Lives, late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari mentions only two succeed the paintings, Leda (today resort to the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) and subject Venus (presumably the Danae newly in the Borghese Gallery indicate Rome), although he knew them only from descriptions provided overstep Giulio Romano.

Vasari mentions that the commissioner, Duke Federico II Gonzaga, wanted to agree the works to emperor become more intense King of Spain Charles V: the fact that the nook two works, the Ganymede advocate Jupiter and Io, were reconcile Spain during the 16th hundred implies that they were accredit of the same series. Nation art historian Cecil Gould recommended that Federico had commissioned dignity Io and Ganymede for person, and that they were ceded to Charles V only tail end the duke's death in 1540, perhaps on occasion of high-mindedness marriage of the king's top soil, Philip;^[1] others hypothesized that Federico ordered them for the Poet room in his Palazzo Te.^[2]

In 1603–1604 the painting was imitative by the emperor Rudolf II together with Parmigianino's Cupid Creation His Arch, and sent give rise to Prague.

The canvas was reveal Vienna since as early gorilla the 1610s, when it hype talked in the Habsburg elegant collections together with Io.^[1]

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