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...beauty but excited Titian's contemporaries to rapture. There too Titian embodied the assumptions of his time, place and class. What terser image of sociosexual politics in 16th century Venice could one ask for than Titian's Danae, princess of Argos, seduced by Zeus in the form of a rainburst of gold coins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Appetite for Human Character | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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