Tizian_085.jpg

Summary

Titian : Rape of Europa wikidata:Q18002417 reasonator:Q18002417
Artist
Titian (1490–1576) wikidata:Q47551 s:it:Autore:Tiziano q:en:Titian
Titian
Alternative names
Tiziano Vecelli; Tiziano Vecellio
Description Italian painter, drawer, architectural draftsperson, printmaker and visual artist
Date of birth/death between 1485 and 1490
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1485-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1490-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
27 August 1576 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Pieve di Cadore Venice
Work location
Venice (1498), Ferrara , Mantua , Padua (1511), Milan (1540), Rome (1545–1546), Florence (1546), Augsburg (1548, 1550–1551), Constantinople ( today Istanbul ) (1555-1557)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q47551
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Rape of Europa
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Rape of Europa Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Zeus Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1560 and 1562
date QS:P571,+1560-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1560-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1562-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 178 × 205 cm (70 × 80.7 in)
institution QS:P195,Q49135
Current location
Titian Room
Accession number
P26e1
Object history commissioned by Philip II of Spain
References
Source/Photographer http://www.gardnermuseum.org/collection/artwork/3rd_floor/titian_room/europa?filter=artist:3150
Permission
( Reusing this file ) 		[1]
Other versions
  • A copy by Rubens
    A copy by Rubens

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Captions

The Rape of Europa (c. 1560-62). Oil on canvas, 178 × 205 cm (70 × 81 in). Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Rape of Europa

exposure time

0.0156 second

focal length

90 millimetre

media type

image/jpeg