Word: terser
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...grace and a certain country solidity, and the nymphs and goddesses (Venus especially), those Venetian odalisques whose weighty gold- pink flesh may not conform to modern conventions of 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...