Titian: Women, Myth & Power opens Aug. 12 at Gardner

Titian (about 1488-1576), The Rape of Europa, 1559-1562, oil on canvas, 178 x 205cm. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Copyright Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

BOSTON – For the first time in more than four centuries, the epic series of mythological paintings by Titian, one of the most celebrated artists of the Renaissance, is reunited in Titian: Women, Myth & Power. The exhibition — jointly organized by The National Gallery, London; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (ISGM )— brings together the Gardner’s masterpiece, The Rape of Europa, with its companion paintings from Spain, England, and Scotland. Titian: Women, Myth & Power makes its final, and only US, stop at the ISGM from August 12, 2021, through January 2, 2022.

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