The Rape of Europe, Nicolaas Verkolje, c. 1735 - c. 1740 painting The robbery of Europe. Based on the metamorphoses of Ovidius (Liber II, 848-875). The Nymph Europe, daughter of Agenor, is located to the right of the middle on a beach. She decorates the horns of Jupiter, which has turned into a white bull, with a flower garland. On the right under the bull is Cupido with his arrow cooker. To the left of Europe, her companions, a group of six nymphs and one girl, are talking and picking flowers. Behind them trees with a view to a mountainous landscape in which an antique villa; Due to a second
The Rape of Europe, Nicolaas Verkolje, c. 1735 - c. 1740 painting The robbery of Europe. Based on the metamorphoses of Ovidius (Liber II, 848-875). The Nymph Europe, daughter of Agenor, is located to the right of the middle on a beach. She decorates the horns of Jupiter, which has turned into a white bull, with a flower garland. On the right under the bull is Cupido with his arrow cooker. To the left of Europe, her companions, a group of six nymphs and one girl, are talking and picking flowers. Behind them trees with a view to a mountainous landscape in which an antique villa; Due to a second view on the right, a classicist city with obelisk can be seen in the background on the other side of a bay. Two ships are in the bay. There are various shells and loose flowers on the beach in the foreground; In the right corner, two putti are busy measuring the depth of the water through a deep plot. panel. oil paint (paint) Europa and her maidens play with the bull, and/or adorn it with flowers
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