Danaé, symbolizes the land that suffers from drought and on which a fertilizing rain falls from the sky.
His father, Acrisios, imprisons him in a bronze tower when an oracle predicts that he will be killed by his nephew. However, Zeus manages to enter the tower in the form of a golden shower that falls on the princess.
From this union a son was born, Perseus. Angry, Acrisios puts his daughter and grandson in a crate and throws it adrift. They reach Serifos, where King Polydectus, in love with Danae, tries to force her to marry him. To be able to keep Perseus away, a potential threat to his marriage, he sends him to fight the Gorgon Medusa.
Perseus returns, after many adventures, victorious over Medusa. With the deadly head of the Gorgon, he turns the king to stone and manages to bring his mother back to Argos. She will end up being walled up alive.
Virgilio tells that he later he goes to Italy where he founds the city of Ardée.
School of Tiziano Vecellio (1488-1576), late 18th century, oil on canvas 64 x 86.5 cm, frame 89 x 110 cm.
The painting is in excellent condition, recently restored, in a magnificent frame (coève), in pierced wood and gilded with gold leaf.
The original is kept at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.
Expert: Maître TURQUIN, Paris.
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