Oil on Canvas
Michelangelo's Leda is in a much more sexually provocative pose. Here it seems to suggest the full act of coitus. Leda's thigh is wrapped around the swan.
In Michelangelo's for me it is hard to tell exactly where they are perhaps Leda's bedroom, what this painting does is particularly pin point a moment, that in which Leda was "visited" by the swan. The color palette, and use of light and shadow, and even the detail in the stroke is characteristic of the Renaissance.
It goes without saying that the similarites between these works is that they are portraying the Unification(rape) of Leda and the swan. The diffrences lie in the presentation and in what particurally the artist chose to emphsize.
Leda body is elongated her arm back in a rather unnatural manner, her head seems small of a body that large. Her hair is up in a delicate manor as she leans in. The neck of the swan is snake like and much of its body is concealed behind her thigh. His wings are back and this makes me personally think of the suggestive act of penetration.
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