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The Rape of Europa
Spanish: El rapto de Europa

Artist	Francisco Goya(1746-1828)
Year	1772
Dimensions	47 cm × 68 cm (19 in × 27 in)
Location	Private Collection

The Rape of Europa (Spanish: El rapto de Europa) is a 1772 painting created by Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) depicting Europa's abduction by the Greek god Zeus in the form of a bull. The classical theme from Greek mythology has also been painted by numerous Old Masters.

References

Carrie B. Douglass (1999). Bulls, Bullfighting, and Spanish Identities. University of Arizona Press. pp. 110–. ISBN 978-0-8165-1652-0.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (1967). Anales.
Melissa Hyde; Melissa Lee Hyde; François Boucher (2006). Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics. Getty Publications. pp. 88–. ISBN 978-0-89236-743-6.
Roger Adolf d'. Hulst (October 1974). Jordaens drawings. Phaidon Press. ISBN 9780714816197.
Catálogo de las exposiciones de arte en ... Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas. 1964.

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Francisco Goya

List of works

Paintings

Consecration of Aloysius Gonzaga as Patron Saint of Youth (c. 1763)
The Holy Family with Saints Joachim and Anne (c. 1769)
The Victorious Hannibal Seeing Italy from the Alps for the First Time (1770–1771)
The Rape of Europa (1772)
Christ Crucified (1780)
The Greasy Pole (1786–87)
The Drunk Mason (1786–1787)
Paintings for the alameda of the Dukes of Osuna (1786–1787)
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Curing a Cripple (1787)
Yard with Lunatics (1793–1794)
Prison Interior (1793–1794)
Assault of Thieves (1793–1794)
The Duchess of Alba and la Beata (1795)
Witches' Flight (1797–1798)
The Bewitched Man (1797–1798)
Witches' Sabbath (1798)
La maja desnuda (c. 1797–1800)
La maja vestida (1800–1805)
Allegory of Industry (c. 1805)
Majas on a Balcony (c. 1808–1812)
The Water Bearer (1808–1812)
The Knifegrinder (1808–1812)
Still Life of a Lamb's Head and Flanks (1808–1812)
The Colossus (after 1808)
Truth, Time and History (1812–1814)
The Madhouse (1812–1819)
The Inquisition Tribunal (1812–1819)
The Second of May 1808 (1814)
The Third of May 1808 (1814)
The Junta of the Philippines (1815)
A Village Bullfight (1815–1819)
The Burial of the Sardine (c. 1816)
A Procession of Flagellants (c. 1816)
The Forge (c. 1817)
Bullfight (1824)

Murals	Adoration of the Name of God (1772) Life of the Virgin (1774)
Portraits	The Family of the Infante Don Luis (1783–84) The Duke and Duchess of Osuna and their Children (1787–88) Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (The Red Boy) (c. 1788) Self-Portrait at an Easel (c. 1790–1795) La Tirana (1792) La Tirana (1794) The Marquise de la Solana (1795) The White Duchess (1795) Charles IV (c. 1795) The Black Duchess (1797) Bernardo de Iriarte (1797) Ferdinand Guillemardet (1798–1799) Charles IV in his Hunting Clothes (1799) Maria Luisa of Parma (1799–1800) The Countess of Chinchon (1800) Charles IV of Spain and His Family (1800–18) Manuel Godoy (1801) Doña Isabel de Porcel (1804–1805) The Marchioness of Santa Cruz (1805) Doña Antonia Zárate (1805) Doña Antonia Zárate (1810–1811) The Duke of Wellington (1812) Josefa Bayeu (1814–1816) Ferdinand VII (1815) Self-Portrait at 69 years (1815) Juan Antonio Cuervo (1819) Self-Portrait with Dr Arrieta (1820) Don Ramón Satué (1823) The Milkmaid of Bordeaux (1825–1827)
Tapestry cartoons (list)	The Boar Hunt (1775) The Parasol (c. 1777) Boys Playing Soldiers (1778–79) Children in a Chariot (1779) The Swing (1779) La novillada (1780) The Grape Harvest (1786) The Threshing Floor (1786) Summer (1786–87) The Drunk Mason (1786–1787) Blind Man's Bluff (1789) The Wedding (1791–92)
Black Paintings (c. 1819–1823)	Saturn Devouring His Son Judith and Holofernes Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) A Pilgrimage to San Isidro La Leocadia Two Old Men Men Reading Man Mocked by Two Women Fight with Cudgels Pilgrimage to the Fountain of San Isidro Atropos Asmodea Two Old Ones Eating Soup The Dog

Print series

Los Caprichos (1797–98)	And So Was His Grandfather The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
The Prisoners (1810–1815)
The Disasters of War (1810–1820)	This is worse (c. 1812–13)
La Tauromaquia (1815–16)	Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the mayor of Torrejón
Los Disparates (1815–1823)	A way of flying (c. 1815–16)
The Bulls of Bordeaux (1824–25)

Museums

Depictions

The Naked Maja (1958 film)
Goya, a Story of Solitude (1971 film)
Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971 film)
Goya: A Life in Song (1989 album)
Goya in Bordeaux (1999 film)
Volavérunt (1999 film)
Goya's Ghosts (2006 film)
The Ministry of Time – Episode 25: Time of the Enlightened (2017)

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