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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
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Title: Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Author: Natalie Dykstra
ISBN: 9781328515759
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2024
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 512
Publisher Description: <p><strong>The vivid and masterful story of</strong> <strong>Isabella Stewart Gardner--creator of one of America's most stunning museums--an American original</strong> <strong>whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's world, museum, </strong> <strong>and the art</strong> <strong>she collected.</strong></p><p>Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston's Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture.</p><p>An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, <em>Chasing Beauty</em> illuminates the fascinating ways the museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of memoir, dazzling and haunting, created with objects instead of words and displayed per Isabella's wishes in the exact placements she initially curated.</p><p>Born in 1840 to a privileged New York family, Isabella Stewart married Boston Brahmin Jack Gardner as she turned twenty. She was misunderstood by Boston's insular society and suffered the death of her only child, a beloved boy, not yet two years old.</p><p>But in time came friendships, glittering and bohemian; awe-inspiring world travels; and collecting beautiful things with a keen eye and competitive pace--all these were balm for loss. Henry James and John Singer Sargent--whose portrait of Isabella was a masterpiece and a scandal--came to recognize her originality. Bernard Berenson, leading connoisseur of the Italian Renaissance, was her art dealer.</p><p>From award-winning author Natalie Dykstra, <em>Chasing Beauty</em> is the story of the complex and singular woman behind one of the most fascinating museums in the nation and the world--a tale of beauty and loss, grit and American self-invention.</p><p> </p>
Author: Natalie Dykstra
ISBN: 9781328515759
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2024
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 512
Publisher Description: <p><strong>The vivid and masterful story of</strong> <strong>Isabella Stewart Gardner--creator of one of America's most stunning museums--an American original</strong> <strong>whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's world, museum, </strong> <strong>and the art</strong> <strong>she collected.</strong></p><p>Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston's Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture.</p><p>An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, <em>Chasing Beauty</em> illuminates the fascinating ways the museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of memoir, dazzling and haunting, created with objects instead of words and displayed per Isabella's wishes in the exact placements she initially curated.</p><p>Born in 1840 to a privileged New York family, Isabella Stewart married Boston Brahmin Jack Gardner as she turned twenty. She was misunderstood by Boston's insular society and suffered the death of her only child, a beloved boy, not yet two years old.</p><p>But in time came friendships, glittering and bohemian; awe-inspiring world travels; and collecting beautiful things with a keen eye and competitive pace--all these were balm for loss. Henry James and John Singer Sargent--whose portrait of Isabella was a masterpiece and a scandal--came to recognize her originality. Bernard Berenson, leading connoisseur of the Italian Renaissance, was her art dealer.</p><p>From award-winning author Natalie Dykstra, <em>Chasing Beauty</em> is the story of the complex and singular woman behind one of the most fascinating museums in the nation and the world--a tale of beauty and loss, grit and American self-invention.</p><p> </p>
