Tag Archives: Oliver Wendell Holmes

dreams in the ordinary world

Into the otherworld. A vision of the isolation of the human spirit in a region beyond time and beyond space… The first half of the nineteenth-century in America produced some of the most poetically evocative paintings of the century anywhere. … Continue reading

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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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