Loves

Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend (Italian painter)
Daphne asleep discovered by Apollo
ca. 1500
oil on panel
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend (Italian painter)
Daphne fleeing Apollo
ca. 1500
oil on panel
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

Vincent Sellaer
Antiope and her twins Amphion and Zethus
with Jupiter as Satyr in background
ca. 1535-45
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Jacopo Tintoretto
Leda and the Swan
ca. 1550
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Lazzaro Tavarone
Abduction of Europa
ca. 1595
drawing (fresco study)
British Museum

Denys Calvaert
Danaë
1614
oil on canvas
Palazzo Mansi, Lucca

Jacob Jordaens after Peter Paul Rubens
Vertumnus and Pomona
1638
oil on canvas
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Vertumnus and Pomona
ca. 1645
drawing
British Museum

Giacinto Gimignani
Danae
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Museo Civico di Pistoia

Anonymous German Sculptor
Leda and the Swan
ca. 1700-1715
ivory
Musée du Louvre

Jean-François de Troy
Abduction of Europa
1716
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jean Thierry
Leda and the Swan
1717
marble
Musée du Louvre

Giambattista Tiepolo
Abduction of Europa
ca. 1725
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

François-Joseph Bosio
Hyacinth, beloved of Apollo
1817
marble
Musée du Louvre

Charles Nègre
Leda
1850
collotype
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Charles Dufresne
Abduction of Europa
1924
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Cy Twombly
Leda and the Swan, Rome
1962
oil paint, graphite and crayon on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

The latest ferrule now has tapped the curb

And the night's tiny noises everywhere

Beat vivid on the owl's developed ear,

Vague in the watchman's, and in wards disturb

The cases counting sheep.  Blessing this moon

Like treasures touching sides, how many lie,

Successful lovers who were once as I;

But in your northern house you sleep alone.

All the hot stars beyond me and the sun,

Down the great trackways where our tribe is nothing

And meaningless a change from love to loathing,

Their fast involuntary errands run:

And I find nothing sensible to do,

But, shivering, look towards the north and you.

– W.H. Auden (1933)