Jupiter and Io

Antonio da Correggio, c. 1530

Oil on canvas

163,5 × 70,5 cm

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Jupiter and Io (c. 1530) is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance artist Antonio Allegri da Correggio. It is housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (379x900, 144 KB) Io and Zeus/Jupiter by Antonio Correggio. ... Raphael was famous for depicting illustrious figures of the Classical past with the features of his Renaissance contemporaries. ... Correggio is the name of a town in Italy and of a famous painter who was born there. ... Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna. ... Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 Vienna (German: Wien ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ...

The painting was connected to the Ganymede abducted by the eagle, also in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The double painting was probably intended to decorate the Ovid's Room in the Gonzaga's Palazzo Te of Mantua (together with other two works of similar subject): however, they were gifted to Emperor Charles V and subsequently the cycle was dispersed outside Italy. Palazzo del Te, Mantua (1524 - 1534). ... Mantua (in Italian Mantova, in the local dialect of Emiliano-Romagnolo language Mantua) is an important city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province with the same name. ... Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. ...

The scene of Jupiter and Io is inspired to Ovid's classics Metamorphoses. Io, daughter of the first king of Argos Inachus, is seduced by Jupiter, who hides himself behind the dunes to avoid hurting the jealous Juno. Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC â€“ Tomis, now Constanta AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. ... Cover of George Sandyss 1632 edition of The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world in terms of Greek and Roman mythology. ... Jupiter and Io, Renaissance masterwork by Antonio da Correggio. ... Argos (Greek: Άργος, Árgos, IPA argos) is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese near Nafplio, which was its historic harbor, named for Nauplius. ... Inachus is one of the Oceanids in Greek mythology. ... Adjective Jovian Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 70 kPa Hydrogen ~86% Helium ~14% Methane 0. ... IVNO REGINA (Queen Juno) on a coin celebrating Julia Soaemias. ...

The noteworthy fascination of the paintings stem probably from the contrast between the undefinite figure of materializing Jupiter, and the concreteness of Io's one, who is shown lost in an erotical rapture anticipating works of authors like Bernini and Rubens. A self portrait: Bernini is said to have used his own features in the David (below, left) Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini) (December 7, 1598 - November 28, 1680), who worked chiefly in Rome, was the pre-eminent baroque artist. ... Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower Alte Pinakothek Pieter Pauwel (Peter Paul) Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was the most popular and prolific Flemish and European painter of the 17th century. ...

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