A life-size nude raises her hand toward a flood of golden light as an old servant draws back the bed curtain. In Greek myth Zeus came to the imprisoned Danaë as a shower of gold; Rembrandt shows only the light. He reworked her head, arm and legs years later. In 1985 an attacker threw acid on the canvas, and restoration took twelve years.
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Above the bed, a gilded carved Cupid weeps, his hands bound.
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