Danaë, shut away in a bronze tower by her father, is visited by Zeus in the form of a shower of gold. Klimt packs her curled, sleeping body into an almost square canvas, wrapped in a sheer purple veil, with the golden stream pouring between her thighs. Painted at the height of his golden phase, it turns myth into erotic ornament.
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Among the falling coin-like discs of gold sits one upright black rectangle, a sharp geometric note against the curves of her body.
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