The rape of Europa : the intriguing history of Titian's masterpiece /
"'The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's great masterpieces, a work charged with eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself. Here Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the painting's movement following...
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London :
Bloomsbury Continuum,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Titian
- Philip II as ruler and patron of the arts
- The myth of Europa
- The Spanish Habsburgs and the Alcázar in Madrid
- The Dukes of Orléans and the Palais-Royal in Paris
- The taste for Titian in nineteenth-century Britain
- Isabella Stewart Gardner, Bernard Berenson and the creation of her museum.