Danaë is a 1530 oil by Correggio, a Mannerism work, depicting Bed, held at Borghese Collection.
This painting shows a woman reclining on a bed, surrounded by three small, winged children. The woman is nude, with a white sheet draped over her lower body, and her right arm is extended, holding the sheet. The children are also nude, with wings on their backs, and they are gathered around the woman's feet. The scene is set in a dark room with a window on the left side, and the only light comes from outside, illuminating the woman's body. The overall atmosphere is one of intimacy and quiet contemplation. If you're interested in learning more about the artist who created this beautiful painting, you might want to look up Antonio da Correggio.
Danaë is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Correggio, executed around 1531 and now in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
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The work was commissioned by the Duke of Mantua Federico II Gonzaga, as a part of a series portraying Jupiter's loves, perhaps destined to the Ovid Hall in the Palazzo Te of Mantua. After Federico's death it went to Spain. In 1584 the painter Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo mentions the canvas in Milan, as part of sculptor Leone Leoni's collection. His son Pompeo Leoni sold it to emperor Rudolph II (1601–1603); later, together with Correggio's Leda and the Swan, it was brought from Prague to Stockholm as war booty by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. His daughter Christina, after abdicating, brought…
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The painting portrays the Greek mythological figure Danaë, the daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos. After an oracle forecast that Acrisius would be killed by her son, he had her jailed in a bronze tower. However, as told by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses, Jupiter reached her in the form of a gold rain, impregnated her, and made her mother to Perseus. Correggio portrays Danaë lying on a bed, while a child Eros undresses her as gold rains from a cloud. At the foot of the bed, two putti are testing gold and lead arrows against a touchstone.
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Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also UK: , US: , Italian: ), was an Italian Renaissance painter who was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High…
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