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Danäe (detail), Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio, c. 1531, Galleria Borghese, Rome.

© Electa/Leemage from Dangerous Women : The Perils of Muses and Femmes Fatales by Laure Adler and Élisa Lécosse (Paris: Flammarion, 2010).