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platonic painter and patron
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A dashing individualist, with the showmanship of Ziegfeld and the temper of Toscanini, she took Boston by storm. A passion for old master art, young men and music all seemed to come together in one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum Gothic Room, Henry Adams, Henry E. Huntington, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, James J. Rorimer, John Singer Sargent, Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride, Madame Gautreau madame X, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, raphael paintings
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Gardner: build and they will come
A bowl of fresh violets, Isabella Stewart Gardner’s favorite flower, in accordance with her custom, is kept besode her favorite painting- a somewhat effeminate Christ Carrying the Cross which she bought as a Giorgione despite Bernard Berenson’s advice: “unquestionably genuine… … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gardner Museum Boston, Gentile Bellini, Isabela Stewart gardner, jack gardner, Lionello Venturi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter, Palma Vecchio, Philip Hendy, Sando Botticelli
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palace of paintings
“Mrs. Jack” as she was called startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure dome in the Back Bay and filling it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy. Isabela Stewart Gardner, a dashing individualist, pioneered the creation of a … Continue reading
Gardner: drawn as if by lightning
A dashing individualist, “Mrs. Jack” Gardner startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure dome in Back Bay and filling it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy… In buying old masters, Mrs. Gardner was a generation ahead of tycoons … Continue reading
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Tagged Anders Zorn, Andrew Mellon art collection, Bernard Berenson, Carlo Crivelli, Fenway Court Boston, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum heist, Gardner Museum Heist 1990, Henry Clay Frick art collection, isabella stewart gardner, Isabelle Stewart Gardner, isabelle stewart gardner museum, James McNeill Whistler, James Whitey Bulger, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Perseus-Andromeda legend, Saint George Medieval Knight
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