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The Rape of Europa
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Titian
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Europa clings to the back of the bull as the sea churns around her in this Rape of Europa reproduction, hand-painted after the late Titian canvas made for Philip II.
Description
Description
By the late 1550s Philip II of Spain had commissioned from Titian a cycle of mythological paintings he called the poesie, and The Rape of Europa, finished around 1562, was the last and most ambitious canvas in that series. This Rape of Europa reproduction brings into a private room a painting that once travelled from Venice to a royal court, and now hangs as the centrepiece of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
About Rape of Europa Reproduction
The scene comes from the Metamorphoses of Ovid: Jupiter, having taken the form of a white bull, has carried off the Phoenician princess Europa and is bearing her across open water toward Crete. Titian sets her sprawled almost horizontally across the back of the bull in the lower right of a nearly square canvas, her pale limbs and white garment twisted against the dark hide beneath her, one hand gripping a horn while the fabric lifts and snaps in the wind. She turns her head back toward the shoreline and mountains receding behind her, a gesture that gives the whole composition its sense of being pulled forward and left behind at once.
Around the pair the sea is far from calm. A fish-tailed creature breaks the surface nearby, cupids ride dolphins and hover in the sky above, and the water itself is built from broken, churning strokes of blue, green and white. This is Titian in his late manner, working with a loaded brush and loose, almost sketched passages of colour that the Venetian painters of a generation earlier would never have allowed to show. The warm flesh tones of Europa, the ochre sky, and the restless sea read at a distance as a single charged field of colour, and it is this handling, more than the mythological subject itself, that later painters from Rubens to the Impressionists studied and returned to.
Our painters recreate this oil on canvas reproduction by hand, working from high-resolution studies of the original to match its warm palette, its broken sea spray, and the loaded, late-career brushwork that gives the surface its movement. Each oil painting reproduction is painted individually rather than printed, so the ridges and drag marks of real oil colour are there to see and feel on the canvas, not simulated. The result is a painted object with its own depth and texture, built the way the original was built, stroke by stroke.
The hand-painted reproduction
A work that has held the attention of painters and visitors for more than four centuries earns a place on a wall where it can keep doing that. Owning a hand-painted version of The Rape of Europa means living with the churn of that sea and the twist of that figure every day, not as a flat image but as paint with real body to it. Here is what comes with it:
- A hand-painted reproduction in oil on artist-grade canvas
- A choice of sizes to suit the wall it will hang on
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang
- A certificate of authenticity included with every order
- 90 day returns, with a full refund or a free replacement and no restocking fee
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