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Isabella Stewart Gardner - A Life (Hardcover)
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Isabella Stewart Gardner - A Life (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
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A major new biography of legendary art collector and philanthropist
Isabella Stewart Gardner Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924)
assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures
and eras—and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to share
these exquisite treasures with the world. But her life and work
remains shrouded in myth. Separating fiction and fact, this book
paints an unforgettable portrait of Gardner, drawing on her
substantial personal archive and including previously unpublished
findings to offer new perspectives on her life and her construction
of identity. Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald shed new
light on Gardner's connections to minority communities in Boston,
her views on suffrage and other issues of the day, the sources of
her and her husband’s wealth, and her ties to politicians,
writers, and artists. What emerges is a multifaceted portrait of a
trailblazing collector and patron of the arts—from Italian
Renaissance paintings to Chinese antiquities—who built a museum
unprecedented in its curatorial vision. Beautifully illustrated,
this book challenges any portrayal of Gardner as a straightforward
feminist hero, revealing instead an exceptional, complex woman who
created a legendary museum and played a vibrant and influential
role in the art world. Distributed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum
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