Danaë2.0010_Pirandello

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Fausto Pirandello, "La Poggia d'Oro" (The Rainfall of Gold), 1933, Rome, Galerie Nazionale della Arte Moderna

Pirandello reduces the scene in Danaë's mythological tower to a dissheveled, bodice-stewn trysting place bereft of any particular magic, except for the golden atmospherics reflected in the mirror beyond Danaë's shodden foot. Whatever is happening in this moment seems far from divine.

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.