an erotic of image of Danae alone with rivers of gold flowing between her thighs.
Manhood is reduced to a nominal black block-line.
| "Klimt passed
off his most erotic paintings as scenes from mythology -- interpreted
in the modern idiom. " In this scene, "Danaë was th daughter of a King of Argos who shut her up in a tower where no man could reach her, until Zeus, the lustful and enterprising king of Gods, transformed himself into a shower of gold in order to enjoy her." from Nathaniel Harris's "The Life and Works of Gustav Klimt." Parragon Books, 1994. |
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