Rubens' 'Castor and Pollux'

Rubens' 'Castor and Pollux'
Temple of Castor and Pollux at Forum Romanum in Rome.

Peter Paul Rubens' Castor and Pollux Abduct the Daughters of Leukyppos, alternatively known as The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1617-1618).

The painting is in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Virtually no art critics (feminists aside) are willing to address the 17th century context here of sexual violence - the abduction and rape of women by men. But with Rubens, the violence could apply to men too. Below is his The Abduction of Ganymede (1636-1638) in the Prado. Does it get any more phallic than this? Zeus is doing the abducting here, as an eagle carrying Ganymede away to Olympus. Michelangelo and Rembrandt also tacked the subject.