Object details
Accession number
S26e14
Primary Creator
Paul Manship
(Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1885 - 1966, New York)
Full title
Rape of Europa
Creation Date
1917
Provenance
Gift from Paul Manship to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 25 December 1917.
Marks
Inscribed (above lower rim): P. MANSHIP ©1917
Dimensions
14 cm (5 1/2 in.) diameter
Display Media
Bronze
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection inspired contemporary artists. In 1917, her friend, the sculptor Paul Manship sent Gardner a bronze relief of Europa inspired by her Titian painting, The Rape of Europa. Introducing his relief to Gardner, Manship wrote, "Mr. Titian has proved that Europa & the Bull is a great subject—This relief is to try out the subject for composition—How do you think it will work out in the round, I want to try it.” Gardner installed it on the table beneath the painting in the Titian Room.
Permanent Gallery Location
Titian Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 221.
Clara Strauss. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 38 (23 May 1965), p. 2.
Walter Hancock. “Paul Manship.” Fenway Court (Oct. 1966), p. 5, ill. 4.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston: 1977), p. 164, no. 209.
"Forward." Fenway Court (1980), ill. 1.
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Passionate Acts in Greek Art and Myth. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1994), pp. 42-43, ill.
Tanya Karpiak. "The medallic secrets of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." The Medal (Autumn 2014), pp. 18-19, 21, fig. 10.
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