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The Rape of Europe

The Zuccari brothers, after having frescoed themes almost obligatory for a cardinal's house, decorate the other rooms with less demanding subjects, related to nature, such as the frescoes of the seasons and the delightful palaces with ruins, or to mythology. Stories of the gods are also favoured. This scene depicts the Rape of Europa, with Zeus in the guise of a bull.

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