The long artful journey of a myth in time and place

Europa and the bull

Ancient Times

Statuette of Beotia (550-500 BC)

Louvre Museum, France

Metope from Temple, (510-550BC), Archaeological Museum, Palermo, Italy

    Black-figure hydria (540-530 BC) Louvre

Museum, France

Europa and the bull on a Greek vase,

(480 BC) Tarquinia Museum, Italy

Europa and the bull Terracotta group

from Athens, (480–460 BC)

National Antiquity Collection, Munich,

Germany

Coin from Cyprus, (4th century BC)

Red Figure Shape Cylix (330 - 320 BC ), Kunst Historical

Museum, Vienna, Austria

Europa riding the bull, Fresco from Pompeii

(1st century AD)Naples, National

Archaeological Museum, Italy

15th-16th-17th-18th century

“The Rape of Europa”, (1470), Liberale Da Verona, Louvre, France

Andrea Riccio, “Rape of Europa”, (1510), Museum

of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

“The Rape of Europa”, Antonio Carracci,

1610National Gallery, Bologna, Italy

“The Rape of Europa” Hendrik van Balen, 1615 Belgium

“The Abduction of Europa”, Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch painter), 1632

“The Rape of Europa”, Guido Reni (made for

King Wladislaw of Poland), 1640

“ Europa and the bull”, Claude Lorrain, 1667Royal Collection, London, UK

“Europa: a new, accurate description” (part of an old map), Frederick de Wit, 1700, The Netherlands

“The Rape of Europa”, Francesco Zuccarelli, 1740-50Academia Gallery, Venice, Italy

“Allegory over Europe”, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1780, The Amalienborg Museum, Denmark

Palace of the Marqueses de Tango, 18th century,

Lisbon, Portugal

19th-20th-21st century

“Europa riding the bull”, 19th century, Palace of Luxembourg, France

“Europa”, George Frederic Watts, 1870, UK

“The Rape of Europa”, Paul Gaughin (French)

1898-1899

Carl Milles, (born in Sweden), “Europa and the Bull”, 1929

“The Rape of Europa”, Pablo Picasso, 1930,

Spain

“The Rape of Europa”, Jacques Lipchitz (born

in Lithuania), 1941

“Europa”, Svetlin Vassilev

(Bulgarian), 2007

“Europa and the Bull”, Oliver Priebe, Germany,

2009

“Europa’s escape”, Sally Fryer, UK

“Zeus and Europa”, Roy Tappenden, UK

Kenneth Zammit Tabona “The Rape of Europa”, Malta

“ The Rape of Europa”, brass monument, N. Koundouros, N. Sotiriadis, P. Sotiriadis,

Crete, Greece

Europa riding the Bull, Headquarters of the Council of the European Union, Brussels, Belgium

“The Rape of Europa”, Hague, The Netherlands

Europa statue – in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France

“Europa and the bull”, Eric Claus, The Netherlands

“Europa”, ceramic, Ivan Hodonsky, Czech Republic

“Europa on the bull”, Jits Bakker, 1998, Museum Centre of Turku, Finland

“Europa and the Bull”, Anthony Caro, UK “The Rape of Europa”, sculpture,

Rumen Mihaylov, Bulgaria

20th century porcelain statuette, Hungary

19th century porcelain statuette, France

The myth of Europa in stamps

…in coins and banknotes

The 5 German Mark bank note in 1948

The German ECU coin (before the Euro) in 1992

The 2 Euro coin

…and in rugs

Designed and hooked by Jule Marie Smith