Danae

• “It was the word Danae which you used that surprised me.”

  Ten Years Later

• “At least one of his paintings, however, the " Danae " from Munich ' s Altepinacotek unfortunately not in the Met exhibition is among the most effectively erotic works to come out of Northern Europe in the 16th century.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Gossart

• “Chemmis in the Theban district near Neapolis, and in this city there is a temple of Perseus the son of Danae which is of a square shape, and round it grow date-palms: the gateway of the temple is built of stone and of very great size, and at the entrance of it stand two great statues of stone.”

  The History of Herodotus

• “[295] This line is very like a Fragment in the "Danae" of Euripides.”

  Plutarch's Morals

• “Rome, where he copied some works by Titian, notably the "Danae".”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “This rule is observed by most of the Egyptians; but there is a large city named Chemmis in the Theban district near Neapolis, and in this city there is a temple of Perseus the son of Danae which is of a square shape, and round it grow date-palms: the gateway of the temple is built of stone and of very great size, and at the entrance of it stand two great statues of stone.”

  An Account of Egypt: Being the Second Book of His Histories Called Euterpe. Paras. 20-39

• “Perseus the son of Danae which is of a square shape, and round it grow date-palms: the gateway of the temple is built of stone and of very great size, and at the entrance of it stand two great statues of stone.”

  The history of Herodotus — Volume 1

• “There are two Venuses by Titian very like that of Dresden, but the heads have not the same dignity; and a Danae which is a replica of the Vienna one.”

  Castilian Days

• “This holds good to a certain extent also of Lorenzo Lotto, who, in the earliest known examples ” the so-called Danae of Sir Martin Conway's collection, and the”

  The Earlier Work of Titian

• “The present in which he so fiercely lives is possessed of genuine, as opposed to emulative tradition; one gladly finds no modish invocations to Blake and Rimbaud but a personal (and therefore poetically energizing0 sense of classic antiquity (as His "Danae" or the Anacoreaon poems) and he has a kind of instinctual connection with the profound past: instead of admiring the primitive he seems almost to have been there:”

  Poetry

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