Swans in art
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Leda and the Swan[edit]
Main gallery: Category:Leda and the Swan.
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Roman mosaic depicting Leda and the swan from the Sanctuary of Aphrodite, Palea Paphos, Cyprus, 3rd century AD
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Roman fresco depicting Leda and the swan found in Villa San Marco, Stabiae
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Pontormo, Leda and the Swan, 1512-1513
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Cesare da Sesto, Leda and the Swan (Copy after a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci), ca 1515-1520
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Rubens, Leda and the Swan, before 1600
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Paul Cézanne, Leda au cygne, 1880-1882
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Jerzy Hulewicz, 1928
Venus (or Aphrodite) with swans[edit]
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Aphrodite riding a swan, tondo from an Attic white-ground red-figured kylix, ca 460 BC
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Francesco del Cossa, Triumph of Venus (detail), 15th century
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Aphrodite and Adonis, 17th century
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François Boucher, Venus Asking Vulcan for Arms for Aeneas, 1732
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Charles-Joseph Natoire, Venus Demanding Arms from Vulcan for Aeneas, after 1732
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James Gillray, Venus a la coquelle - or the Swan-sea Venus, 1809
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James Ward, Venus Rising from her Couch, 1828
Allegory of Music[edit]
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Robinet Testard, Allegory of Music or Erato in an enluminated manuscript of Echecs amoureux, ca 1496-1498
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Filippino Lippi, Allegory of Music, 4th quarter of 15th c.
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Jan van Kessel, Personification of music, 17th c.
Others allegories[edit]
Symbol of Martin Luther[edit]
Saint Hugh of Lincoln with his swan[edit]
Norns with swans[edit]
Sculptures of swans[edit]
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Sculpture at the central entrance of the Cathedral of San Rufino, Assisi, Italy
Others[edit]
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Anna Ancher, A Young Girl Plucking a Swan, 1900