Roof van Europa, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), after Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 print Europe is being taken away by Jupiter in the form of a bull over the sea. In the background on the right the service stations of Europe desperately on the beach. Behind them the herd of cattle, driven to the coast through Mercury, so that Jupiter (visible on his eagle in the clouds) could mix under it and approaching unobtrusively Europe. Two times two lines of Latin text under the performance. This print is part of a series of 52 prints that represent stories from Ovid's metamorphoses. This series falls into
Roof van Europa, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), after Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 print Europe is being taken away by Jupiter in the form of a bull over the sea. In the background on the right the service stations of Europe desperately on the beach. Behind them the herd of cattle, driven to the coast through Mercury, so that Jupiter (visible on his eagle in the clouds) could mix under it and approaching unobtrusively Europe. Two times two lines of Latin text under the performance. This print is part of a series of 52 prints that represent stories from Ovid's metamorphoses. This series falls into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the second series. Haarlem paper engraving Jupiter, usually in the shape of a white bull, abducts Europa and carries her across the water
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Photo credit: © piemags/rmn / Alamy / Afripics
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