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Titian's Rape of Europa Visions of Black Madonnas global editor-in-chief and co-founderDubbed a mighty poet by American author Henry James, Titian remains one of the most celebrated painters in Western art. Since his death in 1576, the artists reputation has never waned. In Gilded Age America, Titian paintings became the peerless prizes of leading collectors and quickly rose to the top of Isabella Stewart Gardners wish list. In 1896, she landed his masterpiece, The Rape of Europa. It became the sole example of his celebrated cycle of