National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Three Centuries of Italian Art
Sebastiano RICCI, The Rape of Europa [Ratto d'Europa] c.1720
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:01:30
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Synopsis
This is one of nine mythological scenes commissioned to celebrate a marriage. The supreme Greek god Zeus has transformed into a friendly bull to abduct the daughter of the King of Tyre (modern day Lebanon) across the sea to Crete. Figures are dramatically placed in the foreground in luminous colour.
