Danaë and the Shower of Gold (1621-1623) by Orazio Gentileschi, Art Print from the Original on Canvas TheOriginal Handwritten beneath the image of

Handwritten beneath the image of the figure on a bridge is the title of the work in German—"Geschrei"—and

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Danaë and the Shower of Gold (1621-1623) by Orazio Gentileschi, Art Print from the Original on Canvas TheOriginal Handwritten beneath the image ofPublic domain art from the Getty Museum, digitally enhanced. Oil on canvas. 'Dana and the Shower of Gold' is part of a series of works executed by Gentileschi in 1622 for Giovanni Antonio Saulis Genoese Palazzo. The subject is based on a passage in Ovids Metamorphoses, in which King Acrisius of Argos imprisoned his beautiful daughter in order to avoid the Oracles prophesy that she would give birth to a son who would kill him. In the story, Jupiter