Rape of Persephone

Hades wished to make her his wife, so he got permission from her father Zeus and help from Gaia to abduct her into the Underworld.

[4] Created in 1636 and 1637, Peter Paul Rubens depicted the abduction of Persephone in a piece entitled The Rape of Proserpine.

The piece was intended to decorate the lost Torre de la Parada, and as such was owned by the Spanish Royal family.

[citation needed] As part of a set of oil studies intended to be used for painting the ceiling frescoes in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence, the Mythological Scene with the Rape of Proserpine was created with the intention of being presented to Marquess Francesco Riccardi for approval before being painted in the palace.

[6] The Rape of Persephone, a painting in the Macedonian Tomb I in Vergina (Aegae),[7] dating from the mid 4th century BC.

Rape of Persephone. Hades with his horses and Persephone (down). An Apulian red-figure volute krater, c. 340 BC. Antikensammlung Berlin
Peter Paul Rubens' The Rape of Proserpina , 1636-1637
The Rape of Persephone, musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse, inv. Ra 152