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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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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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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