The Mystery of the Missing Da Vinci and Michelangelo - Leda and the Swan

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Amuze Art Lecture #140: The art mystery of the missing works of Da Vinci and Michelangelo about the story of Leda and the Swan.
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Chapters
0:00 Art Mystery
0:47 Leda and the Swan
1:56 Da Vinci
4:50 Michelangelo
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Music: Canon in D Major by Kevin MacLeod

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4 авг 2024

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Комментарии : 9

@robertirving1308 8 месяцев назад

I hope these works will be discovered some day. It's always uplifting to read those stories about a Caravaggio painting that was discovered in some old house.

@AmuzeArt 8 месяцев назад

That would be really cool indeed!

@baldwinverhoeven9795 8 месяцев назад

It's always frustrating to hear that art got lost throughout the ages, especially from artists this skilled! The subject makes me wonder, however, what's about it? I get that during the Renaissance mythological themes were very popular in art but what could've moved both da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint Leda? Just mere commission work? Thanks for the video!

@AmuzeArt 8 месяцев назад

It's a great question, and my best guess is that it has to do with the sudden availability of some of those stories, as they were translated during the late 15th century from Greek by people like Marsilio Ficino. And some of those myths just connected better with the particular philosophical ideas of the day.

@baldwinverhoeven9795 8 месяцев назад

I guess the Italians of the Renaissance really were fond of swans then :D thanks for the explanation!

@AmuzeArt 8 месяцев назад

@@baldwinverhoeven9795 I love these kind of questions. I didn't really think about where the theme came from, other than that I read that Da Vinci was perhaps the first artist during the Renaissance to paint this topic.

@hafizmohammed30 3 месяца назад

Leda ond the swan i believe it was over painted with a landscape

@DC-zi6se 8 месяцев назад

Why is it that Michelangelo's paintings have disproportionately large and long torsos and comparatively small heads.

@AmuzeArt 8 месяцев назад

He loved to paint very muscular people, and in some cases, he also designed the paintings/sculptures to be seen from a distance (and often from below). He would realize that when looking at an artwork from a certain position would change its perceived dimensions.