Word: europa
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...works -- one by Manet and several by Degas -- vary from slight to trivial. It seems quite clear that the thieves had very little idea of what to go after, since the glory of the Gardner Museum is its Italian paintings, starting at the top with Titian's Rape of Europa, regarded by some as the greatest single Italian Renaissance canvas in the U.S. and bought by the formidable "Mrs. Jack" Gardner for what seemed to her and everyone else an enormous price in 1896: just under...