“When I wrote for the interpretive project ‘Reconsidering Titian,’ I tried to capture the many different questions that arise for me when I look at Titian’s Rape of Europa. As an art historian and a professor, I find myself relaying facts of its commission … But these facts don’t really capture the power of this painting, an equally crucial aspect. It is one we can all see, and, perhaps for those of us brave enough, feel. Of all the poesie on display, Europa is the most violent, the most frightening,” Professor Shawon Kinew writes in “The Shimmering Quality of the Rape of Europa” on the @gardnermuseum’s Inside the Collection Blog.... Read more about Two interpretative projects at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by Professor Shawon Kinew
