Danae (detail)

Permanent Link:

http://usf.sobek.ufl.edu/SFS0034569/00001

Material Information

Title:

Danae (detail)

Physical Description:

Photograph

Language:

English

Creator:

Titian, ca. 1488-1576 ( Artistis : painter )
Kunsthistorisches Museum. ID=AVK

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:

Vienna, Austria
Rome, Italy
Style: Italian High Renaissance
School: High Renaissance
Movement: Renaissance
Italian
Painting; Danae;

Genre:

Painting
Painting
picture   ( marcgt )

Notes

Summary:

Between 1553 and 1554 Titian executed for the Habsburgs two "mythological fables" of clearly erotic intent, the Danae and the Venus and Adonis, both now in the Prado, Madrid. The Danae is really a variation on a canvas painted ten years earlier for the Farnese family. With greater fidelity to Ovid's text, the Cupid has now been replaced by the elderly nurse who attempts to use her apron to gather the shower of gold into which Jupiter had transformed himself in order to possess the young woman.

General Note:

Design Date: After 1554 (signed)

General Note:

Inventory: 90

Record Information

Source Institution:

University of South Florida Library

Holding Location:

University of South Florida

Rights Management:

All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.

Resource Identifier:

usfldc doi - A01-LIF0519
usfldc handle - a1.lif0519

System ID:

SFS0034569:00001