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The Rape of Europa is a painting by the Venetian artist Titian, painted c. 1560–1562. It is in the permanent collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston. The oil-on-canvas painting measures 178 by 205 centimetres (70 in × 81 in). [1]
Most commonly, art depicted either the moment of the rape, or Lucretia is shown alone at the moment of her suicide. [6] In this near life-size late version, which Titian said in a letter of 1568 (three years before it was completed) was "an invention involving greater labour and artifice than anything, perhaps, that I have produced for many years", [7] the drama of the composition is ...
The Rape of Europa c. 1560–1562, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a bold diagonal composition that Rubens admired and copied. In contrast to the clarity of Titian's early works, it is almost baroque in its blurred lines, swirling colours, and vibrant brushstrokes.
Lucretia and her Husband Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus or Tarquin and Lucretia is an oil painting attributed to Titian, dated to around 1515 and now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The attribution to this artist is traditional but uncertain - the brightened palette suggests it could instead be by Palma Vecchio .
Venus and Adonis - many different versions, with varying contributions by Titian himself. See ones in the Prado and New York above. c. 1560: 187 × 184 cm: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (Rome) Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria: c. 1560: 127.8 × 169.7 cm (Bought by a private bidder on 28 January 2011) Self ...
The Rape of Europa, c. 1560–1562, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Diana and Actaeon, 1556–1559, owned jointly by London's National Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh; Diana and Callisto, 1556–1559, owned jointly by London's National Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh
A sure connection and influence, then, would be Titian's representation of the same Ovidian story. While the influences of Titian's Europa (1560–62) are recognizable, Rembrandt's work is unique. Both pieces reflects the heightened drama of the piece, but Titian's work is more violent in nature. [23]
A later copy of Titian himself, perhaps the most sensual of all is in the Prado, Madrid), Venus and Adonis (original in the Prado, Madrid, but also other versions), Perseus and Andromeda (Wallace Collection, London), The Rape of Europa (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston), Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (shared by National ...