To frustrate the prediction he locked up his beautiful only daughter Danaë in a specially constructed bronze chamber.

However, Zeus, king of the gods, desired her so much that he managed to enter the chamber as a shower of golden rain and impregnated her.

A child was born which she named Perseus, who would later, with the help of his father and other gods, kill the Gorgon Medusa.

Later the oracle's prophecy came true when Perseus accidentally killed his grandfather during a throwing event at the Larissa athletic games.

The scene portrays Danaë instructing her maidservant to collect golden leaves from her nether regions, whose very presence there suggested that Zeus' tactic had been successful.