Poetic Beauty…Io and Zeus…Zeus disguised into a cloud… / by Jeonghee Churches

The tenderness is one of the features that I find so beautiful in this painting…

How can the painter express the emotion so sophisticated….beautiful…so beautiful…

 

Io was a beautiful lady living in Argos, central Greece, when Zeus saw her and fell madly in love…

Disguised into a cloud, Zeus made love to her…

 

'Jupiter (Zeus in Greek Myth) and Io' (c. 1532-1533) is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance

artist Antonio da Correggio. It is housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria.