Danaë and the Shower of Gold (1621-1623) by Orazio Gentileschi, Art Print from the Original on Canvas TheOriginal : Sewn-in labels

Danaë and the Shower of Gold (1621-1623) by Orazio Gentileschi, Art Print from the Original on Canvas TheOriginal : Sewn-in labelsPublic domain art from the Getty Museum, digitally enhanced. Oil on canvas. 'Dana and the Shower of Gold' is part of a series of works executed by Gentileschi in 1622 for Giovanni Antonio Saulis Genoese Palazzo. The subject is based on a passage in Ovids Metamorphoses, in which King Acrisius of Argos imprisoned his beautiful daughter in order to avoid the Oracles prophesy that she would give birth to a son who would kill him. In the story, Jupiter

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