Classical Interior Design, Adolf Ulrik Wertmuller Painting

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Classical Interior Design, Adolf Ulrik Wertmuller Painting

Swedish Academic portraitist painted such luminaries as Marie Antoinette and George Washington. “Danae and the Shower of Gold”, Wertmüller’s masterpiece, caused a scandal when it was exhibited in the new country of America. “Danae” depicts the Greek legend of the impregnation of the maiden by Zeus with a precipitation of gold, resulting in the hero Perseus’s birth. A Mixed-Media painting.

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Classical Interior Design, Adolf Ulrik Wertmuller Painting

Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller Swedish (1751 - 1811)

Swedish Academic portraitist painted such luminaries as Marie Antoinette and George Washington. “Danae and the Shower of Gold”, Wertmüller’s masterpiece, caused a scandal when it was exhibited in the new country of America. “Danae” depicts the Greek legend of the impregnation of the maiden by Zeus with a precipitation of gold, resulting in the hero Perseus’s birth. A Mixed-Media painting.