Examine the eroticism found in art created outside of Church patronage.
What will be an ideal response?
Federico Gonzaga commissioned a set of erotic paintings, including Correggio’s Jupiter and Io (Figure 20.6). The painting illustrates Jupiter consummating his love for Io, a priestess of Hera (Jupiter’s wife). Jupiter appears to Io in the guise of a cloud, his face barely visible behind her, kissing her lightly on the cheek. The figure of Io abandons herself, quite visibly, to sensual pleasure. In the Rape of Europa (Figure 20.7), Jupiter has assumed the form of a bull to abduct the nymph Europa as she adorns the bull’s horns with flowers. Titian uses very loose, sensuous brushstrokes that are very different from the crisp, precise style of other non-erotic works of art.
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