Europa on the Bull is a fresco found in the House of Jason in Pompeii and kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
The fresco, painted between AD 20 and 25 and originally located in the House of Jason, depicts the abduction of Europa by Zeus transformed into a bull, following a pyramidal composition typical of Hellenism. In the background, dominated by a column symbolising the god and by a white rocky landscape, Europa is shown half-naked, seated on the bull and accompanied by three handmaidens. Two copies of the work exist: one in the House of Lucius Vetutius Placidus and another, now lost, documented by a watercolour by Giuseppe Abbate.
Product features
Print on painter's canvas
Size: cm 90 x 60
Material: artwork printed on very fine-grain painter's canvas
Frame: light brown beech wood and wood pulp, handmade
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