POSTCARD FROM GETTY MUSEUM

RAMBRANDT: The Abduction of Europa 1632

Getty Museum,Los Angeles

He moved around the cows

More beautiful than they or other bulls

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Ovid:Metamorphosis

“He moved among the cows, more beautiful than they or other bulls,
he strolled spring grasses, white as the snow untouched
by southern rains or footprint on the ground,
huge, silky muscles at his neck and silvered dewlaps hanging,
horns as white as if a sculptor’s hand had cut them out of pearl.
And no one feared his look, forehead and eye were gracefully benign…
Agenor’s daughter gazed at him in wonder.”
(Ovid, Metamorphoses II.849-59)