the abduction of europa

Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna. Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more. Rembrandt. In another version of the story Europa is a Phoenician princess, the daughter of the Phoenician King of Tyre, Agenor, and Phoenix is her brother According to most myths, Europa was a beautiful Phoenician princess who lived somewhere near the Eastern Mediterranean coast. The abduction of Europa has long been one of the most popular stories for paintings, and innumerable artists have painted its scenes. The most popular myth about Europa says that she was the daughter of Agenor, a Phoenician king, and later became a wife of Zeus, the King of Gods. (Europa. Abduction by Zeus. With this dramatic interpretation of Jupiter’s seduction of Europa, princess of Tyre, Rembrandt confidently asserted his status as a worthy member of an elite circle of history painters. About this artwork. The Last Day of Pompeii Visually similar work. The Threatened Swan From related movement. Here Jupiter swims away with Europa on his back attended by a host of sea deities. "Ye coasts, pray tell my loving father that Europa has left her native land, seated upon a bull, my ravisher, my sailor, and as I think, my bed-fellow." Abduction Of Europa Name: Institution: Course: Date: The Abduction of Europa The Roman mosaic of the abduction of Europa is at the National Museum of Beiruit.It is thought that the mosaic was discovered at a Roman Villa in 1939. The Abduction of Europa, Rembrandt Rembrandt's own, present in his sharp, early Baroque style and in his later pictorial symphonies of texture, gesture, and quiet drama. The Shipwreck of the Minotaur. The abduction of Europa by Zeus as the bull was a starting point for other stories. 0816: The abduction of Europa. Returning to Leyden around 1624, Rembrandt worked independently and collaborated with Jan Lievensz. The abduction of Europa mosaic is tremendously popular and has widely spread in Italy and Africa. The Abduction of Europa. Joseph Mallord William Turner. Many of those are superb paintings, but only a few have made serious attempts to tell this story faithfully to the myth. The myth of Europa was retold and rewritten many times throughout antiquity. Europa may in fact be one of the earliest, and most historically accurate, figures in all of Greek mythology! He painted varied subjects, including many self-portraits. Zeus was said to have placed a depiction of the bull in the stars, as the constellation Taurus, in remembrance of his love affair. The Abduction of Europa (Supplemental) Get the app. He is known for his classical mastery of the female figure and worked primarily on allegories, scenes from ancient mythology, and portraits. Recommended. Description. Artist: Pierre-Paul Prud’hon French, 1758-1823. Painting by Antonio Carracci, 1583-1618. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.130). The Abduction of Europa Date: c. 1788. Titian's painting of Rape of Europa tells the story of a young woman, named Europa, who was abducted and raped by the god Zeus, who had taken the form of a docile white bull. The Abduction of Europa. According to the story told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, the god Jupiter, smitten with the nymph Europa, transformed himself into a white bull and abducted her. According to Hesiod in his Theogony, Europa is a daughter of Ocean and the Titan Tethys (357) while Homer's Iliad has her as the daughter of Phoenix (14:321). The Rape of Proserpine By same artist. Pierre-Paul Prud’hon was a Romantic painter and draftsman dearly admired by Eugène Delacroix. The Abduction of Europa by Zeus. Europa’s Abduction Myth: Black-Figure Trefoil Oinochoe (Wine Jug), Europa on Bull, c. 530 BCE, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The Abduction of Europa. 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