Friday, January 13, 2023

The Rape of Europa

 

Fresco from Crete (ca 400 BC)
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(ca. 400 BC)
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Pietro degli Ingannati (first half 16th C.)
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Jean Cousin the Elder (mid 16th C.)
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Giulio Bonasone (mid 16th C.)
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Lambert Sustris (mid 16th C.)
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Titian (1562)
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Paolo Veronese (ca. 1575)
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Maerten de Vos (ca. 1590)
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Cilles Coignet (ca. 1595)
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Antonio Carracci (early 17th C.)
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Cornelis Schut (1620s)
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Giovanni Lanfranco (early 17th C.)
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Francesco Albani (early 17th C.)
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Abraham Govaerts and Frans Francken the Younger (1621)
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Hendrick van Balen the Elder (1630)
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Erasmus Quellinus the Younger (1635)
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Simon Vouet (ca. 1640)
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Guido Cagnacci (ca. 1650)
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David Teniers the Younger after Giorgione (1655)
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Guglielmo Cortese (attributed, mid 17th C.)
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Claude Lorrain (1667)
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Carlo Maratta (1685)
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Noël-Nicolas Coypel (1727)
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Francesco Zuccarelli (ca. 1745)
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Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre (1750)
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Louis-Jean-Francois Lagrenée (second half 18th C.)
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Jean Veber (1899)
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Valentin Serov (1910)
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Alexander Rothaug (early 20th C.)
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Gerda Wegener (early 20th C.)
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Pietro d'Archiardi (1927)
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Oscar Dominguez (mid 20th C.)


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Eduardo Abela (ca. 1955)
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Salvatore Fiume (1958)
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Fernando Botero (1995)

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After 2000

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There's a remarkably wide variety of modern artistic interpretations of the mythological story. 
Here are some examples to give you an idea:



José Seguiri (2005)
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Yelena Revis
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Eugene de Laster
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Victor Safonkin (2015)
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Oleksii Gievyshev (2016)
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Alejandro Decinti (2018)
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Eugen Khandusenko (2018)
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Olga Zaitseva (2018)
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Olga Suvarova

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Phoenician princess, mother of King Minos from Crete, abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull
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