Rape of Europa
Luca Giordano
1672–1705
- Medium
- Brush and brown oil paint, with black chalk, heightened with white oil paint, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 17.3 × 23.6 cm (6 13/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Genre
- brush and ink
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)paintchalk sticksinkgouachewashprints and drawingwatercolorbrush and inkcoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paint
About
Among the most famous Baroque artists from Naples, Luca Giordano was nicknamed Luca fa presto (Luca creates quickly), which can be appreciated in the spontaneity of his draftsmanship as well as that of his paintings. Reminiscent of the famous Venetian painting by Titian, the drawing tells the story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses in which the god Jupiter takes on the form of a white bull in order to lure Europa away.
