Danaë1.0027_Goltzius

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ClCv241

Mastery

MythMatters

LACMA website
Ovid Met. 4.605-11
OGCMA s.v. "Danae"

Classical Sources:

Homer Il. 14.319
Pindar Pyth. 12
Diod. Sic. Libr. 4.9
Vergil Aen. 7.371ff, 406-13
Horace C. 3.16
Apollodorus Library 2.2-4
Pliny HN 3.9.56
Hyginus Fab. 63, 155, 224
Lucian Dial. Marin. 12 "Doris and Thetis", 14 "Triton and Nereids"

Hendrik Goltzius, 1588-1617, "Sleeping Danaë being Prepared for the Arrival of Jupiter," 1603, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M. 84.191

LACMA website cites this bibliography:
Schaefer, Scott, et al. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
Conisbee, Philip et al. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.