Photographie Vintage - Giacomo Brogi- Leda et le cygne- Florence c 1880

DESCRIPTION
Original albumen print
Mounted under a 40 × 50 cm mat
Leda and the Swan, marble sculpture by Bartolomeo Ammannati, Bargello Museum, Florence, Italy.
According to Homer, Zeus took the form of a swan to seduce Leda, wife of the King of Sparta.
A disciple of Michelangelo, Bartolomeo Ammannati (1540–1550) was an architect and sculptor of the Florentine school.

AND MORE…
Giacomo Brogi was an Italian photographer born in Florence, Tuscany, in 1822 and died in 1881.
He began working in photography in 1856. He opened his first studio in Rome in 1864, then later in Florence and Naples.

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