orreggio’s Jupiter and Io, now housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Looking Vienna, is one of his more erotic closely, mythologicalC paintings. This piece is one of four we notice famous paintings done by Correggio, called The the Loves of Jupiter. They illustrate Ovid’s narrative distinct face poem, Metamorphoses. Each of the four paintings and hand of shows Jupiter seducing Jupiter coming his chosen target, out from the grey, foggy mass as he embrases Io, under a different and the vertical lines created by Io’s leg and spine disguise each time. draws the viewers eye down and around the This painting shows image. James Beck in Italian Renaissance Greek/Roman god, Painting observes the pale, cool colors created by Jupiter (Zeus) under the foggy mist playing against the warm tones of the guise of a cloud, the woman’s nude body, and the detailed contours visiting his mortal all fit the subject matter. Bruce Cole in Italian Art lover, Princess Io in hopes his jealous wife Juno (Hera) doesn’t discover them. 1250-1550 comments on the style and design of the painting, saying that Io is depicted as the perfect Renaissance beauty (despite the fact that she’s from ancient Greco-roman times) and that she remains the archetypal image of the soft, yeilding woman seen in This painting works from Correggio to Mantegna to captures my attention Picasso and more. Correggio created this particularly because painting for Fredrico II Gonzaga of Mantua of the artistic for him to display in his private “Ovid room” techniques Correggio in his Italian palace, Palazo Te. Soon after, uses to direct the the paintings were given as a gift to the viewer’s focus. The visiting Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. dark, cloudy mass taking up the upper half of the image balances the glowing, warm colors on the lower half. The very first thing we see when we look at this image is Io’s body, and Correggio does a nice job of directing our attention up toward the face using vertical lines so we can more clearly see the grey face of Jupiter.