Cupid, holding some lightning bolts, watches this scene from the back of an eagle in a painting by Jacob Jordaens.
Cupid, holding some lightning bolts, watches this scene from the back of an eagle in a painting by Jacob Jordaens. The most famous version of this scene is in the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum and was rendered with gloomier colors in a copy made by Rubens on a sojourn to Spain. The title figure's foot is kissed in the closest of three scenes depicting this action in a Paolo Veronese painting. Phillip II commissioned the best-known version of this scene, where a putto watches the central action while grasping the fins of a dolphin. In that version, the diagonally rendered title figure waves a pink cloth in her left hand and grabs onto a horn with her right. For 10 points, name this mythological scene painted by Titian where the title figure is carried away on a white bull.
Cupid, holding some lightning bolts, watches this scene from the back of an eagle in a painting by Jacob Jordaens.
The Rape of Europa [or the Abduction of Europa]