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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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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madame x : plantation to paris
The French were considered to have less scruples relating to eroticism than the English. Manet’s Olympia broke the mold, but, in an exhibition where paintings of nudes were common, that of Madame Gautreau in black evening dress was considered more … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged a.hyatt mayer, Arthur Rimbaud, charles merrill mount, david mccullough, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Henry James, horace gregory, isabella stewart gardner, jack gardner, John Singer Sargent, louis de fourcaud, Paul Klee, sir osbert sitwell, stanley olson, Walter Benjamin
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