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The Rape of Europa is a painting by the Venetian artist Titian, painted ca. 1560–1562. It is in the permanent collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts. The oil-on-canvas painting measures 178 by 205 centimetres (70 in × 81 in).
The Rape of Europa, oil painting created in 1559–62 by the Venetian artist Titian. It is a superb example of Titian’s late style and demonstrates his full power as a painter.
This horizontal, almost square oil on canvas painting is massive – taking up almost the entire wall it hangs on. It depicts a scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Infatuated with Europa, Jupiter (king of the gods) transforms himself into a bull and abducts her.
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This painting depicts the mythological story of the abduction of Europa, daughter of the King of Tyre, as recounted by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses. While playing on the seashore one day, Europa was approached by a docile bull. Draping a flower garland on its horns, she unsuspectingly climbed onto its back.
The story of the Rape of Europa is told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Mercury is ordered by his father, Jupiter, to drive a herd of cattle belonging to King Agenor from their pastures on the mountainside to the seashore of Tyre, where the King’s daughter Europa plays with her companions.
Rape of Europa is a faithful copy made by Peter Paul Rubens in Madrid after an original by Titian. It shows the Phoenician princess Europa after she was abducted by Zeus, who had taken on the form of a white bull.
