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Details competition

Tom Lubbock
Saturday 25 September 1999 23:02 BST
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Details 450 came from Rembrandt's The Rape of Ganymede (1635). The myth is paedophiliac - Jupiter desires a beautiful boy and (as an eagle) kidnaps him - and later commentators struggled to give it a high- minded symbolism: the soul aspiring to the divine etc. Rembrandt resorts to an odd sort of farce, with the god, in the form of a very stuffed-looking bird, carrying off a toddler, shown realistically bawling and pissing himself. The treatment is "rude" in beach-postcard style - note how the eagle's grip yanks up the child's clothing to "accidentally" expose his bottom. The picture is in the Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.

The first three correct entries came from: E Flinders, Derby; G Pickford, London W12; and T Pieretti, London N19

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