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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).
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 ...
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's The Abduction of Europa (1632) is one of his rare mythological subject paintings. The work is oil on a single oak panel and now located in the J. Paul Getty Museum. [1] The inspiration for the painting is Ovid 's Metamorphoses, part of which tells the tale of Zeus 's seduction and capture of Europa.
Danaë, 1544–1546. The original version in Naples, 120 cm × 172 cm. National Museum of Capodimonte [1] The Wellington Collection (London) version, now agreed to be the one sent to Philip II of Spain. Before restoration. Here, an aged maid has replaced Cupid, while the cloth covering Danaë's upper thigh is absent, leaving her naked.
However, others identify the painting as part of Titian's series of half-length female figures from 1514 to 1515, which also includes the Flora at the Uffizi, the Woman with a Mirror at the Louvre, the Violante and the Young woman in a black dress in Vienna, Vanity in Munich and the Salome at the Galleria Doria Pamphilj.
The Rape of Europa. 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).
Santi Nazaro e Celso, Brescia. The Averoldi Polyptych, also known as the Averoldi Altarpiece, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Titian, dating to 1520–1522, in the basilica church of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Brescia, northern Italy. It is signed "Ticianus Faciebat / MDXXII" on the column of the panel showing St. Sebastian.
Others think that Velázquez' message was simply that to create great works of art, both great creativity and hard technical work are required. Other scholars have read political allegories into the work and interpreted it through popular culture. Titian's Rape of Europa is seen in the background of the painting