DANAE BY TITIAN

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Danae is a famous work by Titian.

According to mythology, Danae was a beautiful young woman that Jupiter yearned after so much that he became a shower of golden rain in order to physically take her. The author Giovanni Della Casa speaks of the erotic intensity of this "naked woman who makes your blood boil", who was destined to delight Cardinal Alessandro upon seeing her.

Anticipating his trip to Rome, Titian skillfully organized the time it would take him to complete it by starting the canvas in Venice and bringing it with him to finish off in the first days of his stay in the Vatican. With this move, Titian tried to make an "example" in Rome's cultural atmosphere, and managed to create precisely the effect he was hoping for. Titian was about fifty-five when he painted the canvas, but had never depicted a naked female with such explicit eroticism before.

 

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