Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, 1787 - Danaë and the Shower of Gold - fine art print

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In 1787 Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller created the painting "Danaë and the Shower of Gold". The version of the artpiece has the size: Height: 150 cm (59 ″); Width: 190 cm (74,8 ″). What is more, the piece of art can be viewed in in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm's digital collection, which is Sweden's museum of art and design, a Swedish government authority with a mandatet o preserve cultural heritage and promote art, interest in art and knowledge of art. We are glad to mention that the public domain artwork is provided with courtesy of Nationalmuseum Stockholm & Wikimedia Commons.: . Further, the alignment is in landscape format and has a ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width.

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English: Danaë lies naked, reclining gently on a divan. Above her falls a shower of gold. This is Jupiter, who came to Danaë in the form of golden rain and made her pregnant. Cupid, god of love, directs the stream of gold down towards her womb. Cupid in fact has no real function or role in the myth of Danaë and the shower of gold. He is here merely to signal the mythological content of the picture. The artist has transported the myth to his own time by using shapes and stylistic features that were popular then. The divan and its decoration, Danaë’s hairstyle and body shape and the warm, golden colours that dominate the painting are all expressions of the Neoclassicism that was the height of fashion in the late 18th century. It is said that Wertmüller toured with the painting, concealing it behind a curtain that, for a fee, he would draw aside as a kind of peepshow. The contemporary imagery no doubt helped to stoke the imagination of the viewers. If one ignores the figure of Cupid, it is easy to find parallels with contemporary depictions of naked, sexually provocative women in Danaë’s pose. The story of Danaë is told in works such as Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and forms a common motif in art from the Renaissance onwards. Danaë ligger naken, lätt tillbakalutad på en divan. Ovanför henne faller ett gyllene regn. Det är Jupiter, förklädd till guldregn, som på detta sätt gör Danaë gravid. Amor, förälskelsens gud, riktar strålarna ned mot hennes sköte. Amor har inte någon egentlig funktion eller roll i myten om Danaë och guldregnet. Han finns snarare med för att signalera bildens mytologiska innehåll. Konstnären har förflyttat myten till sin egen tid genom att använda for¬mer och stilelement som var populära i hans samtid. Divanen och dess dekor, Danaës frisyr och kroppsform, de gulaktiga varma färgtonerna som dominerar bilden är alla uttryck för den nyklassicism som var stilbildande i slutet av 1700-talet. Enligt legenden lät Wertmüller målningen turnera. Den ska då ha varit försedd med ett draperi som mot betalning drogs undan för publiken — en slags peepshow med andra ord. Det samtida uttrycket bidrog säkert att kittla fantasin hos betraktarna. Om man tänker bort Amor är det lätt att hitta paralleller till samtida bilder av nakna, sexuellt utmanande kvinnor i Danaës pose. Myten om Danaë återberättas bland annat i Ovidius Metamorfoser. Det är ett vanligt motiv i konsten från renässansen och framåt.

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