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accession number: 1971.101
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Danaë, c. 1623. Orazio Gentileschi (Italian, 1563-1639). Oil on canvas; framed: 202.5 x 270 x 9 cm (79 3/4 x 106 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 162 x 228.5 cm (63 3/4 x 89 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1971.101
title: Danaë
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creation date: c. 1623
creation date earliest: 1618
creation date latest: 1628
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creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture: Italy, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Orazio Gentileschi (Italian, 1563-1639) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 202.5 x 270 x 9 cm (79 3/4 x 106 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 162 x 228.5 cm (63 3/4 x 89 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1971
opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).
title: Van Dyck. Grande pittura e Collezionismo a Genova
opening date: 1997-03-22T00:00:00
Van Dyck. Grande pittura e Collezionismo a Genova. Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy (March 22-July 13, 1997).
title: Orazio and Artemesia Gentileschi
opening date: 2001-10-15T00:00:00
Orazio and Artemesia Gentileschi. Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (October 15, 2001-January 20, 2002); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (February 11-May 12, 2002); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (June 15-September 15, 2002).
title: Caravage et le Caravagisme européen
opening date: 2012-06-22T00:00:00
Caravage et le Caravagisme européen. Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (organizer) (June 22-October 14, 2012).
title: Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy
opening date: 2012-11-11T00:00:00
Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (November 11, 2012-February 10, 2013); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (March 4-June 16, 2013).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* CMA, 1971/72: "Caravggio and His Followers," cat. no. 32, pp. 103-105, colorplate 32 (catalogue by Richard E Spear). (Revised edition, cat. no. 32, p. 103, repr. p. 105 (black & white)).
Rome, Museo del Palazzo di Venezia (October 15, 2001-January 6, 2002); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (February 11-May 12, 2002); Saint Louis Museum of Art (June 15-September 15, 2002). "Orazio and Artemesia Gentileschi.", exh. cat. no. 41, pp. 193-195.
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (6/22/2012 - 10/14/2012): "Caravage et le Caravagisme européen", ex. cat. no. 17, p. 124-125.
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PROVENANCE
Possibly Charles Spencer, Fifth Earl of Sunderland (1706-1758);
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Private collection, England;
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Hazlitt Gallery (London, England], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971.
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Danaë’s father feared a prophecy that his grandson would kill him, so he imprisoned his daughter to protect her from suitors. Yet Jupiter, king of the gods, fell in love with Danaë, and he came to her in the form of gold streaming from the sky. Gentileschi adopted Caravaggio’s method of painting directly from models, pulled to the front of the picture plane, which gives the painting a startling, tangible quality. However, the graceful way he handled paint and human gestures lends the work a poetic quality unique to the artist.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1971." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 1 (1972): 3-46.
page number: Reproduced: p.12
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152412
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 135
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n155
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 346-348; Reproduced: p. 347
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Patrice Marandel, J., ed. Caravaggio and His Legacy. Los Angeles, CA: Prestel, 2012.
page number: Mentioned: p. 58; Reproduced: p. 59
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterworks on Loan: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art: October 2016 through February 2017. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016
page number: p. 8-9
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Bissell, R. Ward, Laura Muti and Daniele De Sarno Prignano. Orazio Gentileschi: Cristo Deriso. Faenza: Edit Faenza, 2018.
page number: Mentioned: p. 20
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.101/1971.101_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.101/1971.101_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.101/1971.101_full.tif