Leda Atomica in the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres. Leda was admired by Zeus, who seduced her in the guise of a swan on her wedding night when she slept with her husband Tyndareus. This double consummation of her marriage resulted in two eggs, each of them hatching twins: from the first egg Castor and Pollux, and from the second Clytemnestra and Helen. "Leda Atomica" is organized according to a rigid mathematical framework, following the "divine proportion". Leda and the swan are set in a pentagon inside which has been inserted a five-point star of which Dalí made several sketches. The
Leda and the Swan (Copenhagen) Leda and the Swan (Copenhagen) A Leda and the Swan statue, depicting the classical myth of Leda and the Swan, was from 1611 to 1795 a major landmark in Copenhagen, Denmark. The statue topped a tall column located just off the entrance to the naval Arsenal Harbour. The monument was built in 1611 during the reign of King Christian IV. Lauritz de Thurah's "Den Danske Vitruvius" (1st volume, 1746) incorrectly states that the statue was brought home from Kalmar as war loot. The monument was built on an artificial islet with walled sides, on a shallow-watered sandbar known as the