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Nemesis or Fortune, Albrecht Dürer c. 1502 Engraving, 332 x 232 mm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe Taken in itself the ' Danae ' is a picture absolutely of the first order, representing the art of painting at its zenith ; yet when we compare the figure that gives the piece its name and character with a later effort in the nude of about twenty years after, we see that the art of Rembrandt could rise, as it were, above itself, and carry us to a height of pictorial achievement from which even the Danae looks immature. The reference is to the worldfamous Bathsheba of the Louvre of 1654. See also Heracles and the Stymphalian Birds Heracles Labours , 1511 All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
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