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'Mythical' swan photo taken down after 'bestiality' fears
Telegraph UK ^

Posted on 05/08/2012 6:23:45 AM PDT by Perdogg

The Scream gallery in Mayfair had exhibited the artwork for a month with no complaints from the public. The work is intended as modern depiction of the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan.

But a Metropolitan police officer who saw the Derrick Santini image from a bus was alarmed.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: leda; ledaandtheswan
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1 posted on 05/08/2012 6:23:49 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 05/08/2012 6:24:35 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Here’s another one. We could have an entire thread just with various pictorals of this myth:

http://uploads7.wikipaintings.org/images/leonardo-da-vinci/leda-and-the-swan-1.jpg


3 posted on 05/08/2012 6:27:24 AM PDT by Remole
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To: Perdogg

I don’t care how “classical” that is, it’s disgusting.


4 posted on 05/08/2012 6:28:13 AM PDT by FrogMom (There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: Perdogg

Looks like “Art” is subject to the lowest denomininator, just like our educational system. You have to slow things down to the pace of the slowest student.

In this case, a sculpture that a true work of art, may possibly offend someone who wishes to read into the sculpture things that were never intended, and thereby deny the general public from seeing the piece of art. We are beginning to make Victorian England seem sleazy by comparison.

Just like what used to be a picture of babies taking a bath together, is now considered pediophilia. We’ve become a society that is led, managed and punished by the lowest denominator.


5 posted on 05/08/2012 6:29:41 AM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: Perdogg
Leda and the Swan

Really? This is what has the morality police panties in a bunch?
6 posted on 05/08/2012 6:30:18 AM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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To: Perdogg

Leda and the Swan

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Leda and the Swan, a 16th century copy after a lost painting by Michelangelo (National Gallery, London)
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Leda and the Swan, copy by Cornelis Bos after a lost original by Michelangelo.

Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus seduced, or raped, Leda in the form of a swan. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. In the W.B. Yeats version, it is subtly suggested that Clytemnestra, although being the daughter of Tyndareus, has somehow been traumatised by what the swan has done to her mother (see below). According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched.[1] In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris.

The subject was rarely seen in the large-scale sculpture of antiquity, although a representation of Leda in sculpture has been attributed in modern times to Timotheos (compare illustration, below left); small-scale sculptures survive showing both reclining and standing poses,[2][3] in cameos and engraved gems, rings, and terracotta oil lamps. Thanks to the literary renditions of Ovid and Fulgentius it was a well-known myth through the Middle Ages, but emerged more prominently as a classicizing theme, with erotic overtones, in the Italian Renaissance.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda_and_the_Swan



7 posted on 05/08/2012 6:30:40 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Hodar
In this case, a sculpture that a true work of art, may possibly offend someone who wishes to read into the sculpture things that were never intended,

Except that in this case the 'art' is a depiction of bestiality. The swan did in fact rape Leda...that's the muth. Zeus took the form of a swan and then raped a mortal woman that he desired.

8 posted on 05/08/2012 6:35:19 AM PDT by pgkdan (ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I love the colour contrast is this one.


9 posted on 05/08/2012 6:37:34 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Adds new meaning to getting “goosed”


10 posted on 05/08/2012 6:44:43 AM PDT by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: Perdogg

As commneters said, and I paraphrase, better to endure the genital mutilation of 100,000 (Muslim) women than allow a photo depicting a mythical subject to stand.It’s an example of the Talibanization of Britain.


11 posted on 05/08/2012 6:46:09 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: Remole

That’s really a Secret Service Agent, she talked the swan down to $30....


12 posted on 05/08/2012 6:46:09 AM PDT by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: Perdogg

As commenters said, and I paraphrase, better to endure the genital mutilation of 100,000 (Muslim) women than allow a photo depicting a mythical subject to stand.It’s an example of the Talibanization of Britain.


13 posted on 05/08/2012 6:47:35 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: Perdogg

I learned of Leda and the Swan in my Catholic High School...a mythology class....

much ado about nothing....we have much more to worry about like an IslamoMarxist _resident who wants to turn America into Kenya II.


14 posted on 05/08/2012 6:50:08 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Perdogg

15 posted on 05/08/2012 6:58:43 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit ;-{)
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To: JoeProBono
OK, I just never see anything that really makes me chuckle. Why not? Because I'm funnier than you are. Sorry, it is true. But not today. That is hilarious.

Here is a funny image. But not as funny as yours:


16 posted on 05/08/2012 7:04:17 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks!)
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To: Perdogg

Stoopit.

I guess culture and history are no longer taught.

Seems fine to me given it’s reference.


17 posted on 05/08/2012 7:22:12 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Perdogg

I love Corregio. He was amazing and I am not into portraits much.


18 posted on 05/08/2012 7:34:59 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: nevergore
Adds new meaning to getting “goosed”

And clarification for the term "swantz" or "schwantz."
19 posted on 05/08/2012 7:42:51 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: nevergore
Adds new meaning to getting “goosed”

And clarification for the term "swantz" or "schwantz."
20 posted on 05/08/2012 7:43:06 AM PDT by aruanan
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