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Danaid
Bronze
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Danaid is Rodin's
most famous marble sculpture, with a most sensuous and modern
design. The body of Danaid falls gracefully over a rock, as her
jug of water has broken and is spilling. The figure's hair and
body melts into the rock, as if earth and body were the same.
The sculpture is one of Rodin's most beautifully sculpted anatomies.
According to Greek mythology, the Danaids were the fifty daughters
of King Danaos of Argos, who was in conflict with his brother
Aegyptos, father of fifty sons. The fifty sons went to Argos
to propose marriage to the Danaids as a conciliatory gesture
toward Danaos, who continued to hate his brother.
Danaos ordered
his daughters to murder their bridegrooms on their wedding night,
and all but one complied. As a result of their crimes, the Danaids
were sentenced to the underworld where they filled unending broken
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