Leopold Museum — Vienna, Austria

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Erisava Staff Aug 16

Danaë by Gustav Klimt, 1907

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Danaë

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The story behind it, from what I can find, is a princess shut in a tower by her father and a god who gets in by turning himself into a shower of gold. It's a small canvas too — under a metre either way, which you'd never guess from a photo of it.

Erisava: Did the gold get more attention here than she did?