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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Jacob Jordaens (1616)

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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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Rembrandt van Rijn (1632)

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Erasmus Quellinus the Younger (1635)

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Simon Vouet (ca. 1640)

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Alessandro Varotari (ca. 1640)

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Laurent de la Hyre (1644)

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Caesar van Everdingen (1650)

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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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Luca Giordano (1677)

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Carlo Maratta (1685)

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Jean Francois de Troy (1716)

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Noël-Nicolas Coypel (1727)

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Nicolaas Verkolje (ca. 1740)

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Francesco Zuccarelli (ca. 1745)

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Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre (1750)

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Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder (ca 1760)

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Louis-Jean-Francois Lagrenée (second half 18th C.)

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Francisco Goya (1772)

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Gustave Moreau (1869)

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George Frederic Watts (1899)

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Jean Veber (1899)

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Felix Vallotton (1908)

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Valentin Serov (1910)

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Ferdinand Leeke (1910)

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Pierre Bonnard (1919)

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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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Henri Matisse (1929)

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Max Beckmann (1933)

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Oscar Dominguez (mid 20th C.)

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Pablo Picasso (1946)

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Eduardo Abela (ca. 1955)

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Salvatore Fiume (1958)

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Salvador Dali (1971)

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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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Adam Miller (2021)

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Olga Suvarova

Europa

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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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