THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Europa
1. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
The abduction of Europa.
Fresco from Pompeii.
1st century CE.
Inv. No. 111475.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LXX.
2. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Europa riding the bull.
Fresco from Pompeii (House of Fatal Love, IX, 5, 18, g).
1st century CE.
Inv. No. 111475.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LXX.
3. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Rape of Europa.
Fresco from Pompeii (House of Jason, IX, 5, 18, oecus g).
1st century CE.
Inv. No. 111475.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LXX.
4. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Europa riding the bull.
Fresco from Pompeii (House of Fatal Love, IX, 5, 18).
1st century CE.
Inv. No. 111475.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LXX.
5. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Europa on the bull.
Fresco from Pompeii (House of Fatal Love, IX, 5, 18, g).
20—25 CE.
Inv. No. 111475.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LXX.
6. SCULPTURE. Greece.
The abduction of Europa.
Metope of the temple of Hera in Selinuntum (Sicily).
Tuff.
6th century BCE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
7. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
The Rape of Europa. A so-called “Small metope” of the temple Y in Selinuntum.
Compact limestone of Menfi.
560—550 BCE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
8. TOREUTICS. Rome.
Boscoreale wine jug.
Silver. 1st century CE.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
9. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Europa riding the bull.
Fresco from Pompeii.
1st century CE.
Pompeii, House of Lucius Vetutius Placidus.
10. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Nike killing the bull or the rape of Europa by Zeus in a bull-like visage.
Marble.
First half of 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. 143 / 428.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Animals.
11. CERAMICS. Greece.
Europa on the bull.
Red-figure amphora. Attic.
By the Phiale Painter.
Clay. Ca. 440 BCE.
Inv. No. Б. 4523.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
12. CERAMICS. Etruria.
Zeus as bull and Europe.
Red-figure krater.
Clay. Ca. 450 BCE.
Tarquinia, National Archaeological Museum.
13. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Fragment of an Attic sarcophagus relief with a scene of a sea battle.
Marble.
Beginning of the 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 154.
Venice, National Archaeological Museum.