# The Rape of Europa [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MANDER, Karel van, the Elder]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Pen, brown ink, brown and grey wash, diameter 162 mm ## Commentary As the translator of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Van Madre drew heavily upon the Roman poet's themes of which The Rape of Europa was especially popular among sixteenth-century artists. The present drawing of 1589 was executed in the Late Mannerist style, with highly stylised figures in unnaturally stiff poses placed in a rocky landscape. Print was not executed after this design. A new version of the subject was <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/dolendo/rape\_eur.html'\)" href="/html/d/dolendo/rape\_eur.html">engraved by Zacharias Dolendo</a> in 1592. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Nature]() - [Annunciation \(recto\)]() - [Fugitives \(recto\)]() - [Garden of Love]() - [Landscape with Snow and the Crucifixion]() - [Oriane Endavours to Perform Feats of Magic in the Garden of Apolidon]() - [The Continence of Scipio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()