Danaé, Titian School, Painting, Oil On Canvas

Danae, she symbolizes the land suffering from drought and on which a fertilizing rain descends from the sky.
His father, Acrisios, imprisons him in a brazen tower when an oracle predicts that he will be killed by his grandson. Zeus managed to enter the tower in the form of a shower of gold that fell on the princess. From this union is born a son, Perseus.
Wrathful, Acrisios puts his daughter and grandson in a chest that he throws adrift. These arrive at Serifos, where King Polydectus, in love with Danae, tries to force her to marry him. To manage to drive away Perseus, potential threat to his marriage, sends it to fight the Gorgon Jellyfish.
Perseus returns, after many adventures, winner of Medusa. With the deadly head of the Gorgon, he turns the king into stone and manages to bring his mother back to Argos. She will end up immured alive.
Virgil tells that she later goes to Italy where she founds the city of Ardea.
 School of Tiziano Vecellio (1488-1576), late eighteenth century, oil on canvas 64 x 86.5 cm, frame 89 x 110 cm
The painting is in excellent condition, recently restored it is presented in a beautiful frame (cove), openwork wood and gilded with gold leaf.
The original is kept at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.
Expert : Master TURQUIN, Paris.