The grandest of all the galleries in the museum, this room captures Isabella Gardner’s love of Venice, where she spent many summers. Titian’s Europa dominates the room, and most of the other works exhibited here are associated in some way with this painting. Mrs. Gardner bought Europa in 1896 (for a world-record price) and, when it arrived in Boston, she excitedly wrote: “I am drinking myself drunk with Europa and then sitting for hours... thinking and dreaming about her. Every inch of paint in the picture seems full of joy.”