# Danaë [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GENTILESCHI, Orazio]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 161 x 227 cm ## Commentary Commissioned in 1621 by the nobleman Giovanni Antonio Sauli for his palazzo in Genoa, the painting remained in the family until the twentieth century. The Sauli series was amongst the most important commissions Orazio received, and includes a Penitent Magdalene \(private collection\), and a Lot and his Daughters \(J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles\). The sensuality and splendour of the Danaë draw together the Caravaggesque naturalism prevalent in early seventeenth-century Italy with the refinement and colour which mark the mature style of Gentileschi, one of the most elegant and individual figures of the Italian Baroque. A second, inferior version of the Danaë is in the Cleveland Museum of Art. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Danaë]() - [David Contemplating the Head of Goliath]() - [David Contemplating the Head of Goliath]() - [Finding of Moses]() - [Joseph and Potiphar's Wife \(detail\)]() - [Joseph and Potiphar's Wife]() - [Landscape with St Christopher]() - [Lot and his Daughters]() - [Lot and His Daughters]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()