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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Celllini: Ganimede e l'aquila

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Cellini sculpted several renditions of Ganimede -- the most erotic of which shows a fetching adolescent sweetly ruffling the feathers of the eagle with one hand while on the other he holds a small bird intended to represent the cockerel that Greek males presented to their 'eromenoi'.

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