This work is a guide to the collection in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. It also offers a narrative history, combining art historical, social and historical analysis, with stories about how the collection was acquired.
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before and after you visit the museum,
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This review is from: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Companion Guide and History (Paperback)
I bought and read this book prior to my visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum so that when I was there I knew a little about the pieces in her collection. The book is a great source of information about the rooms and the art but it also covers the life of Isabella Gardner. I recommend buying the book ahead so that you know which pieces of art you really want to concentrate on.
The book has color photos of up close shots of the art and photos of the various rooms so that you can see the art in its setting. It is arranged by floor (there are three) and then by room and finally by the individual piece, making it very easy to use and it is a great size for carrying with you through the museum. The history in the book is excellent and gives a great overview of Isabella's life and pursuit of art.
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One Woman's Way to Make a Home,
By Artist Barbara Garro (Barbara Garro at http://www.ElectricEnvisions.com in Saratoga Springs, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Companion Guide and History (Paperback)
More than a few of my well-traveled friends have raved about The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston as their favorite museum in all the world. And why not? Wait until you see it--you'll feel right at home.
Imagine creating for yourself a life that is perfectly delicious. Imagine creating for the world a home museum experience unequaled in all the world. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, NY, held that honor for me until I learned the story and saw the pictural views of Fenway Court Isabella Gardner created as her home, which after her death in 1924 was changed to be called The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Most museum books have wonderful pictures without so rich a story of a strong, courageous woman of impeccable, impassioned taste. No one could have created Fenway Court except Isabella Gardner. Few have created such a wonderful life for themselves and left such an amazing legacy. And, she also managed to maintain her beauty and figure. And what a negotiator she was to gain possession of a piece of art she felt Fenway must own. I feel empowered to have learned her story.
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A guide to Isabella's life and her home,
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This small museum guide available at ISGM bookshop in great quantity but difficult to find elsewhere (amazon has it)is a delight to read. Differently from other museum guides it dosen't only deal with the works exposed in Isabella Stewart Gardner's home Fenway Court, but it also briefly reviews this brillant and eccentric woman's life and so brings us even closer to her.
The visit to the ISGM is a great experience because what we see is not a museum but a person's house, a house used for receiving, entertaining, exposing unusual things and precious objects, a house for praying and reading, and meditating, a house full of lifetimes memories and loved masterpieces. Illustrating the intermingling of Mrs. Gardner's life and her masterpiece was not easy. Mr. Goldfarb, director of the Museum is at the height of this task and with a few well done strokes draws Isabella's portrait and at the same time describes in great detail not only the works of art contained in the mansion but also their history, the way they came into the collection and many interesting news on their artists. The book is well illustrated with expecial focus on the disposition of the pieces and the complete description of all the rooms of the house. A useful tool for ISGM visit but also a book that is enjoyable before, after and also without the visit.
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Inscribed over the central portal of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a pithy summation of the founder's attitude toward her self-defined mission: "C'est mon plaisir." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Isabella Gardner, Fenway Court, John Singer Sargent, Gothic Room, Dutch Room, Third-floor Rooms, Raphael Room, Titian Room, Second-floor Rooms, Early Italian Room, Jack Gardner, Tapestry Room, Long Gallery, Bernard Berenson, Gardner Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry James, Spanish Cloister, Yellow Room, Anders Zorn, Ground-floor Rooms, United States, Simone Martini, Fra Angelico, Henry Adams New!
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Inscribed over the central portal of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a pithy summation of the founder's attitude toward her self-defined mission: "C'est mon plaisir." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oil sketch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Isabella Gardner, Fenway Court, John Singer Sargent, Gothic Room, Dutch Room, Third-floor Rooms, Raphael Room, Titian Room, Second-floor Rooms, Early Italian Room, Jack Gardner, Tapestry Room, Long Gallery, Bernard Berenson, Gardner Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry James, Spanish Cloister, Yellow Room, Anders Zorn, Ground-floor Rooms, United States, Simone Martini, Fra Angelico, Henry Adams New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Henry James: The Early Novels (Twayne's United States Authors Series, Tusas 440) by Robert Emmet Long on page 5, and page 145
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- Boston Symphony Orchestra by Mark Howe on page 10
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (American men and women of letters series) by Oliver Wendell Holmes on page 30
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James on page 75
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