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The subject is taken from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', which tells how Europa was carried away from Tyre by the god Zeus who had transformed himself into a bull.
This painting was highly esteemed in the 18th and early 19th century, but for most of the 20th-century was considered as a reduction and reversal of Veronese's painting in the Doge's Palace, Venice. However, it is certainly an autograph by Veronese and may represent an earlier conception of this subject.
This painting was highly esteemed in the 18th and early 19th century, but for most of the 20th-century was considered as a reduction and reversal of Veronese's painting in the Doge's Palace, Venice. However, it is certainly an autograph by Veronese and may represent an earlier conception of this subject.
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The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN