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unusual facts about ''Danaë'' by Gustav Klimt



Audrey Ushenko

In this myth, Perseus was sent by King Polydectes to bring him the head of Medusa in order to remove Perseus from his mother Danae’s side so the king could make her his wife.

Cornelis van der Geest

Other works included in that view are Women at her toilet by Jan van Eyck, a still life by Frans Snyders, Ceres Mocked by Adam Elsheimer, Danaë by Van Haecht, Battle of the Amazons and a portrait by Peter Paul Rubens, Peasant Company with Woman making Pancakes by Pieter Aertsen, Apelles by Jan Wierix and a hunting scene by Jan Wildens.

Dersingham Bog

The Mire also has some rare insects such as the Black Darter Dragonfly (Sympetrum danae) and moths such as the Light Knot Grass (Acronicta menyanthidis).

Joseph Gregor

After completion of Danae's score, Strauss was planning in 1940, at the suggestion of Heinz Drewes and Hans Joachim Moser, to collaborate with Gregor to rework the libretto of the opera Jessonda (music: Louis Spohr, libretto: Edward Henry Go ).

Taningia danae

In 2005, a Japanese research team headed by Tsunemi Kubodera managed to film T. danae in its natural habitat for the first time.

In 2012, Taningia danae was filmed twice more during a search for the giant squid for the Discovery Channel Special, Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real.

William Proby, Lord Proby

He became the captain of Danae and in her suffered a mutiny on 14 March 1800; forty of the crew seized the ship off Le Conquet, Brest.


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