Danaë2.0002_Gentileschi

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St Louis Art Museum
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"

Artemisia Gentileschi, "Danaë", 1612, oil on copper, St. Louis Art Museum, acc. no. 93:1986

SLAM website cites this bibliography:
Christiansen, Keith and Judith Walker Mann. 2001. Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. New York; New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press.

Gentileschi "portrays Danaë as not simply a victim, a virgin, or an object of sexual desire, but instead as a realistic, complex individual." (R. Campbell W19) — cf. J.M. Zarucchi (1998-1999), "The Gentileschi Danaë: a narrative of rape," Women's Art Journal 19.2:13-16. doi:10.2307/1358400 —— This slide informed by R Campbell, W 19. Thanks!

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.