Correggio, Jupiter and Io, early 1530s, of Federigo Gonzaga’s pleasure chamber, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua

• placed in Plalzzo Ducale
• Cravaggio was asked to paint a series on jupiter
  
• Palazzo Ducale was a more formal environment
• Jupiter is a nebulous cloud that kisses Io
• The soft, sombre colors are more appropriate for the formal palace
• But the subject is not. Io is in ecstasy from Jupiter's kiss
  
• The viewer is shown the extent of hey joy in fingers and toes
• she is nude
• there are no specific external influences
  
• pays attention to texture and uses texture to show tempestuous scene