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Multiples Danaes: Corregio, Tiziano, Gossaert, Klimt, Tintoretto, Rembrandt.

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Corregio Danae

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Danae by Corregio

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Danae

Artist: Antonio da Correggio (Italian, 1489–1534)

Date: c. 1531

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Galleria Borghese, Rome

Description

The painting portrays the Greek mythological figure Danaë, the daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos. After an oracle forecast that Acrisius would be killed by her son, he had her jailed in a bronze tower. However, as told by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses, Jupiter reached her in the form of a gold rain, impregnated her, and made her mother to Perseus.

Correggio portrays Danaë lying on a bed, while a child Eros undresses her as gold rains from a cloud. At the foot of the bed, two putti are testing gold and lead arrows against a touchstone.

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The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

1652

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini - The Ecstasy of St Teresa (detail),1647-52. Marble

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Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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[Detail of “The Ecstasy of St Teresa of Avila,” sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)]

“I have already spoken about other people who were not too bad in terms of mysticism, but who were situated instead on the side of the phallic function, Angelus Silesius, for example. Confusing his contemplative eye with the eye with which God looks at him, must, if kept up, partake of perverse jouissance. For the Hadewijch in question, it’s like for Saint Teresa - you need but go to Rome and see the statue by Bernini to immediately understand that she’s coming. There’s no doubt about it. What is she getting off on? It is clear that the essential testimony of the mystics consists in saying that they experience it, but know nothing about it.

These mystical jaculations are neither idle chatter nor empty verbiage; they provide, all in all, some of the best reading one can find - at the bottom of the page, drop a footnote, ‘Add to that list Jacques Lacan’s Écrits’ because it’s of the same order. Thanks to which, naturally, you are all going to be convinced that I believe in God. I believe in the jouissance of woman insofar as it is extra (en plus), as long as you put a screen in front of this “extra” until I have been able to properly explain it.”

Jacques Lacan, “God and Woman’s jouissance,” Seminar XX, On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits of Love and Knowledge, 1972-1973