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MANDER, Karel van, the Elder (b. 1548, Meulebeke, d. 1606, Amsterdam) |
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The Rape of Europa1490sPen, brown ink, brown and grey wash, diameter 162 mm Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest | |
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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 engraved by Zacharias Dolendo in 1592. | |
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