* the marble statue Leda with the Swan in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence.

Leda and the Swan, a 16th century copy by Peter Paul Rubens, after a lost painting by Michelangelo ( National Gallery, London )

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.

Leda and the Swan, Roman marble possibly reflecting a lost work by Timotheos ; restored ( Prado )

This shows Leda and the Swan making love with gusto, despite being on top of a triumphal car, being pulled along and surrounded by a considerable crowd.

), Leda and the Swan became again a popular motif in the later 19th and 20th centuries, with many Symbolist and Expressionist treatments.

Paul Cezanne's Leda and the Swan

Cy Twombly executed an abstract version of Leda and the Swan in 1962.

There is a life-sized marble statue of Leda and the Swan at the Jai Vilas Palace Museum in Gwalior, Northern Madhya Pradesh, India.

" Leda and the Swan " is a sonnet by William Butler Yeats first published in the Dial in 1924.

In the song " Power and Glory " from Lou Reed's 1992 album Magic and Loss, Reed recalls the experience of seeing his friend dying of cancer and makes reference to the myth, " I saw isotopes introduced into his lungs / trying to stop the cancerous spread / And it made me think of Leda and The Swan / and gold being made from lead "

In the 1971 film Harold and Maude, Maude shows Harold her painting titled " The Rape of Rome ," which includes Leda and the Swan in the bottom right corner.

In April 2012 an art gallery in London, Great Britain, was instructed by the police to remove a modern exhibit of Leda and the Swan.

File: Francis Derwent Wood-Leda. jpg | Francis Derwent Wood's Leda and the Swan

Image: Leda Melzi Uffizi. jpg | Leda and the Swan copy by Leda Melzi after the lost painting by Leonardo, 1508-1515, Oil on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.

File: Leda y el cisne. jpg | Leda and the Swan.

File: Leda y el cisne ( Pencz ). jpg | Leda and the Swan.

File: La fábula de Leda ( Cajés ( copia de Correggio )). jpg |" The fable of Leda " ( Leda and the Swan ), Eugenio Cajés ( copy of Correggio ), Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.

Camille Paglia, who called the poem " the greatest poem of the twentieth century ," and said " all human beings, like Leda, are caught up moment by moment in the ' white rush ' of experience.

Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío's 1892 poem " Leda " contains an oblique description of the rape, watched over by the god Pan.

( Hilda Doolittle ) also wrote a poem called " Leda " in 1919, suggested to be from the perspective of Leda.

See also Leda and the Swan for the motif in the visual arts and the poem by William Butler Yeats.

* Leda, a character portrayed by Christine Halford in the Battlestar Galactica episode " Gun on Ice Planet Zero ".

It also suggests that this event leads to the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra ( the latter being the daughter of Leda ).

* Leda and the Swan, by Tintoretto, from the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence ; explore other depictions of Leda and the Swan and compare to similar themes

The primordialist evolutionary view of nationalism has its origins in the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin that were later substantially elaborated by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides.

Image: Leda and the Swan 1505-1510. jpg | Leda and the Swan, copy by Cesare Sesto after a lost original by Leonardo da Vinci, 1515-1520, Oil on canvas, Wilton House, England.

There is a drawing by Raphael in the Royal Collection of Leonardo's lost Leda and the Swan, from which he adapted the contrapposto pose of his own Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

* Yeats ' " Leda and the Swan ": an image's coming of age

Yeats also recounts the myth of Leda and the Swan in his poetry.

The book includes several of Yeats ' most famous poems, including Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan, and Among School Children.

" The poet Charles Baudelaire witnessed these changes and wrote the poem " The Swan " in response.

Aldous Huxley's novel, " After Many a Summer Dies the Swan " was titled after a verse from the Lord Tennyson poem " Tithonus.

For example, The Swan of Tuonela ( 1895 ) is a tone poem from Jean Sibelius's Lemminkäinen Suite.

Other writers who have made use of the theme include Donald Barthelme ( in his novel Snow White ), Gregory Maguire ( in his novel Mirror Mirror ), Jane Yolen ( in her story " Snow in Summer ," published in Black Swan, White Raven ), Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald ( in their story " The Queen's Mirror ," published in A Wizard's Dozen ), Anne Sexton ( in her poem " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ," published in Transformations ), Gail Carson Levine ( in Fairest ), and A. S. Byatt ( in her essay " Ice, Snow, Glass ," published in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ).

Syllabic poetry can also take a stanzaic form, as in Marianne Moore's poem " No Swan So Fine ", in which the corresponding lines of each stanza have the same number of syllables.

Tennyson's poem " The Dying Swan " is a poetic evocation of the beauty of the supposed song and so full of detail as to imply that he had actually heard it:

Finnish composer Jean Sibelius's tone poem The Swan of Tuonela in a famous solo, uses a cor anglais to play the dying song of the legendary swan of Tuonela.

The Swan of Tuonela ( Tuonelan joutsen ) is an 1895 tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

In his poem " The Waggoner ", Wordsworth asks " Who does not know the famous Swan?

* Schwanengesang ( Swan song ), a poem by Johann Senn, set to music by Franz Schubert, unrelated to the above collection

Their poignant song Swansong sets a poem about the damage to the environment caused by rubbish over a version of The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns.

Hamsa-Sandesha ( IAST ) or " The Message of the Swan " is a medieval love poem set in southern India.