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Titian Room Restoration
I am breathless about the Europa, even yet! I am back here tonight after two days...sitting for hours...thinking and dreaming about her.
— Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1896
The object of Isabella’s affection was her latest acquisition: Titian’s painting The Rape of Europa. Isabella judged the Renaissance masterpiece so important that she named a gallery after its painter. The “Titian Room” remains today one of the grandest spaces in the Museum. Isabella carefully considered every detail of the room, and many of the objects evoke Venice, the Italian city that Isabella and her husband Jack returned to again and again.
Today, we are working to restore all of the elements of this space so that you can experience it as Isabella originally intended.
The frame of Titian's Europa is a work of art in and of itself.
During a gallery restoration, all objects are examined and cleaned.
Objects are moved from the gallery to our conservation labs for examination.
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Conserving Titian's Europa
This masterpiece recently underwent its first restoration in 90 years
Creating the Titian Room
How Titian’s masterpiece was given pride of place in Isabella’s museum
Conservation at the Gardner
Conservators do daily battle to preserve objects in the collection