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The Rape of Europa

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The Rape of Europa - Titian (c1488-1576) - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Rape of Europa - Titian (c1488-1576) - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum​
Date: 1560-1562
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 178.0 x 205.0 cm
The Rape of Europa is a famous painting undertaken by Titian between 1560 and 1562, with the oil on canvas work depicting a tale from Greek mythology. 

The Rape of Europa depicts the abduction of the beautiful Phoenician princess Europa by Zeus, with the god having transformed himself into a bull to undertake the deed. 

Zeus would take Europa to Crete where the princess gave birth to three sons of Zeus, Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys. 

More information about the Abduction of Europa can be found here - 
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Titian (Tiziano Vecelli)

Born: c1488; Pieve di Cadore, Venice
Died: 27 August 1576; Venice
Nationality: Venetian
Art Movement: High Renaissance
Painting School: Venetian School​​

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  • Home
  • Artists
    • Jan Cossiers
    • Herbert James Draper
    • Jacob Jordaens
    • Peter Paul Rubens
    • Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder
    • Titian
    • John William Waterhouse
  • Museums
    • The National Gallery >
      • Artemis and Callisto (Titian)
      • Judgement of Paris (Rubens)
      • Leda and the Swan (After Michelangelo)
      • Death of Actaeon (Titian)
      • Pan and Syrinx (Boucher)
      • Diana and Callisto (Bril)
      • Bacchus and Ariadne (Titian)
    • Prado >
      • Meleager and Atalanta (Jordaens)
      • The Three Graces (Rubens)
      • Deucalion and Pyrrha (Rubens)
      • Sisyphus (Titian)
      • Punishment of Tythus (Titian)
      • Briseis given back to Achilles by Nestor (Rubens)
      • Narcissus (Cossiers)
      • Cadmus and Minerva (Jordaens)
      • Prometheus Carrying Fire (Cossiers)
      • Jupiter and Lycaon (Cossiers)
      • Orpheus and Eurydice (Rubens)
      • The Fall of Icarus (Gowy)
    • Musee d'Orsay >
      • Sarpedon (Levy)
    • The Louvre >
      • The Three Graces (Regnault)
      • The Abduction of Ganymede by Zeus (Le Sueur)
      • The Race between Hippomenes and Atalanta (Halle)
      • Ixion, King of the Lapiths, Deceived by Juno, Who He Wished to Seduce (Rubens)
      • Phaedra and Hippolytus (Guerin)
    • The Hermitage >
      • Feast of the Gods (Rottenhammer)
      • The Three Graces (Furini)
      • Helen Recognising Telemachus (Lagrenee)
  • Subjects
    • The Three Graces
    • Ganymede
    • Hylas and the Nymphs
    • Glaucus and Scylla
    • Prometheus
  • Index