L’enlèvement d’Europe · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: L’enlèvement d’Europe
Subject: Rape; Virgin; Kidnap; Bull; Europa; Crete
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Crete
Description: Europa, in the blue gown, is being placed in a boat that will take her to Crete. The white bull is symbolic of Jupiter – he turned himself into a white bull and followed the ship to Crete, where he raped the virgin Europa.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19805
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19805_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Rape; Virgin; Kidnap; Bull; Europa; Crete