The king of the gods in the ancient Greek pantheon had a notorious reputation for sleeping around, so it should come as no ...

Ganymede and Zeus were depicted in works of art from antiquity, on both painted pottery and sculpture. The subject became popular with Greek vase painters in the 5th century BC, where several vases ...

English painter Thomas Lawrence may have hidden some clues to a salacious romance in one of his most celebrated portraits.

In the myth, the god Zeus turned into a swan and raped Leda ... artists in Renaissance Italy in the 16th Century: it inspired paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Tintoretto, and ...