Ganymede in the Renaissance: homosexuality in art and society

Michelangelo : myth as personal imagery

Correggio at Mantua : libertinism and gender ambiguity in norther Italy

Parmigianino and Giulio Romano : Ganymede's associations with Apollo, Hebe, and Cupid

Benvenuto Cellini : the libertine and the counter-reformation

The seventeenth century and diffusion to the north

Conclusion.