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berenson: such a deal
The whole thing was a scandal. Authenticating Old Master art, inflating the price, actig for the buyer and making commission as a seller. But there behavior probably reflected the same values and mannerisms of the wealthy industrial class they were … Continue reading
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sweep out the ashes
Eccentric she was.A black sheep never quite accepted by Boston’s first families. Quirky. An only in America original. She had edge, she had flash; a dashing individualist Isabella Stewart Gardner “Mrs. Jack” startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Berenson, Cleveland Amory, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter biographer, Nellie Melba
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Money is the sixth sense
Isabella Stewart Gardner was certainly no prude. She liked to tell risque jokes in public, and she did her best to shake up, startle, and rattle staid old Boston society. Her pleasure dome in the Back Bay filled with masterpieces … Continue reading
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Tagged Anders Zorn, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Edith Wharton, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gentile Bellini, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John L. Sullivan, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter
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canvas and the pound of flesh
The rape of Europa by Titian is probably the most celebrated painting in the collection of Old Masters assembled by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the turn of the last century. It hangs, all 70×80 inches of it, in a heavy … Continue reading
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she bought what she wanted: money’s worth
It was a palace of paintings. For conservative old Beantown, she was simply startling and an individualist; she erected a Venetian pleasure dome in the Back Bay and filled it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy. …In 1892 Mrs. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Allan Chong Gardner, Anthony Van Dyck, Benvenuto Cellini, Bernard Berenson, Bindo Altoviti, boticelli, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Pallffy, Edgar Degas, Fra Angelico, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, john sargent singer, Morris Carter, Simone Martini, Villa Livia Rome
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window to another world
James J. Rorimer, former director of the Metropolitan Museum and a former director of its medival branch, The Cloisters, said that Isabella Stewart Gardner was the first person in the United States to incorporate specimens of Roman, Byzantine, Romanesque and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbey of St. Denis, Gardner Museum Chapel stained glass, George Grey Bernard, Henry Adams, Henry Adams Gardner Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, James J. Rorimer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Soissons cathedral, The Cloisters Museum
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