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Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life

A major new biography of legendary art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart Gardner

Isabella Stewart Gardner (18401924) assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures and erasand 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book paints an unforgettable portrait of Gardner, drawing on her substantial personal archive and including previously unpublished findings to offer new perspectives on her life and her construction of identity.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 husbands wealth, and her ties to politicians, writers, and artists. What emerges is a multifaceted portrait of a trailblazing collector and patron of the artsfrom Italian Renaissance paintings to Chinese antiquitieswho 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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  • Dimensions: 159 x 248mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Nov 2022
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780691235967

About Diana Seave GreenwaldNathaniel Silver

Nathaniel Silver is division head and the William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. His books include Bostons Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent. Diana Seave Greenwald is assistant curator of the collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Her books include Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art (Princeton).

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