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Available now, Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life is the first biography of our remarkable founder produced by the Museum in nearly a century.
Isabella Stewart Gardner (April 14, 1840 – July 17, 1924) was an American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Gardner possessed an energetic intellectual curiosity, a love of travel, and, most importantly, money.
Isabella Stewart Gardner suffered a stroke in 1919, but continued to receive guests in her museum for the next five years. She died in 1924, leaving a museum “for the education and enjoyment of the public forever.”
L'Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum è un museo che si trova a Boston, nel Massachusetts. Nel 1896, Isabella Stewart Gardner incaricò l'architetto Willard T. Sears di progettare una casa-museo per ospitare le sue notevoli raccolte di arte europea ed asiatica.
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 remain shrouded in myth.
24 nov 2022 · “Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life” is a new biography about the Boston museum founder by Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald.
24 apr 2024 · Isabella Stewart Gardner was an eclectic American socialite and art collector, a patron of many arts, remembered largely for the distinctive collection of European and Asian artworks that she assembled in Boston.
