Danaë2.0001

Danaë2.0001_Lynes

LACMA website
OGCMA s.v. "Danae"

George Platt Lynes, "Danaë", ca. 1939, gelatin silver print

Lynes engaged several other mytholigcal subjects in a series of photographs from 1937 onward. See his Birth of Dionysus but also photography of Balanchine's Orpheus.

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.