based on: Greek mythology

instance of: painting (56) | sculpture (9) | fresco (3) | mosaic (2) | statue (2) | tapestry (1) | krater (1) | tondo (1) | plate (1) | lost artwork (1) | neck amphora (1)

commissioned by: Isabella d'Este (2) | Porsgrunn (1) | Julius II (1) | Agostino Chigi (1) | Vincenzo Giustiniani (1)

owned by: France (1) | Nuremberg (1) | Porsgrunn (1) | Ludwig II of Bavaria (1) | Gemäldegalerie (1) | Institut de France (1) | Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds (1)

movement: neoclassicism (9) | High Renaissance (7) | Baroque (6) | classicism (2) | Venetian school (2) | rococo (1) | abstract art (1) | mannerism (1) | academic art (1) | Baroque painting (1) | Italian Renaissance (1) | Early Renaissance (1) | Dutch Golden Age painting (1) | German Renaissance (1) | Modern sculpture (1)

genre: mythological painting (56) | nude (13) | landscape art (3) | public art (2) | sculptural group (2) | self-portrait (1) | overdoor (1) | black-figure pottery (1) | Early Renaissance (1) | figurative art (1) | allegory (1) | portrait historié (1)

named after: Nessus (1)

artist: Jacques-Louis David (8) | Caravaggio (6) | Raphael (5) | Diego Velázquez (4) | Nicolas Poussin (3) | Peter Paul Rubens (2) | Andrea Mantegna (2) | Jacopo Tintoretto (2) | Cornelius van Poelenburgh (2) | Anselm Feuerbach (2) | Frans Floris I (2) | Leonardo da Vinci (1) | Francisco Goya (1) | Albrecht Dürer (1) | Rembrandt (1) | Sandro Botticelli (1) | Pietro Perugino (1) | Parmigianino (1)

depicts: woman (23) | nudity (15) | Zeus (9) | Europa (9) | sky (8) | kidnapping (8) | bull (8) | Cupid (7) | long hair (7) | cloud (6) | umbilicus (6) | sitting (6) | sea (5) | man (5) | helmet (5) | rural area (5) | lyre (5) | horse (4)

material used: oil paint (54) | canvas (28) | wood (5) | canvas (5) | marble (3) | terracotta (3) | fresco (3) | tempera (2) | Pentelic marble (2) | copper (1) | ceramic (1) | stainless steel (1) | electrum (1) | plaster (1) | poplar wood (1) | panel (1) | oak (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (9) | Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (7) | Museo del Prado (5) | Hallwyl Museum (4) | Uffizi Gallery (3) | Hermitage Museum (2) | Gemäldegalerie (2) | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (2) | Borghese Collection (2) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (2) | Condé Museum (2) | Musée des Augustins (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras (1) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (1) | National Museum in Warsaw (1) | Alte Pinakothek (1)

location: Museo del Prado (5) | Hallwyl Museum (4) | Room 710 (4) | Room 170 (4) | Uffizi (3) | Hermitage Museum (2) | Gemäldegalerie (2) | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (2) | Condé Museum (2) | Room 702 (2) | London (1) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | Athens (1) | Nuremberg (1) | Porsgrunn (1) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (1) | Getty Center (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1)

part of: Isabella d'Este Studiolo (2) | Parthenon (1) | Black Paintings (1)

country of origin: Spain (5) | Norway (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1789 (1) | Velázquez (1) | El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez (1) | Perugino – Raphael’s Master (1) | Salon of 1783 (1)

main subject: Rape of Europa (8) | Athena (1) | thiasus (1) | Judgement of Paris (1)

location of final assembly: Mantua (2) | Antwerp (2) | Italy (1) | Oslo (1) | Crete (1) | Mycenae (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (6) | relief sculpture (4) | fresco painting (3) | grisaille (1) | bas-relief (1) | tapestry weaving (1)