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Leda and the Swan

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The story

Dug up on Rome's Palatine Hill in 1775, this marble copies a lost Greek Leda attributed to Timotheos, known through more than two dozen copies. Restorers in the 1700s rebuilt her arms and the swan's head and gave her an ancient head taken from a statue of Venus.

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Object details

Title: Leda and the Swan
Artist: Roman
Date: undated
Culture: Roman
Medium: Marble
Object type: Sculpture
Collection: J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0.
Object number: EFA.0571
Original image: 1885 × 3000 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Roman. Leda and the Swan. undated. J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0571/