Jupiter and Io
Item
- Title
- Jupiter and Io
- Rights
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Fair Use.
- Creator
- Antonio de Correggio (Antonio Allegri) (1449-1534)
- Date
- 1530
- Description
- A dark, ominous cloud forms the shape of the king of gods, Jupiter. The cloud engulfs the background, only making a vague male form where his lips meet those of the human woman, Io. She rests on rock ledge, body leaning up into the formless storm cloud, Jupiter, who wraps a just forming hand around her nude back. Io turns her face from the gods kiss, holding on to his amorphous form.
- Format
- Painting. canvas.
- Publisher
- Kunsthistorisches Museum.
- Contributor
- Mckenzi Monical
- Identifier
- Kunsthistorisches Museum. Picture Gallery, 274.
- Subject
- Italian Renaissance; Renaissance painting; Io; Jupiter; Zeus; love.
- Site pages
- Male Divinity and Abduction
- Media
Jupiter and Io