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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Information from Reference.com The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court is a museum in Boston, Massachusetts with a collection of over 2,500 works of European, Asian and American art, including paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. The museum was established in 1903 by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), a wealthy patron of the arts. Although Isabella Stewart Gardner stipulated the current collection remain in the state it was in upon her death, with everything arranged according to her stipulations, the museum from time to time has organized temporary exhibitions. www.reference.com /search?q=Isabella+Stewart+Gardner+Museum   (771 words)

ISGM The Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Isabella Stewart Gardner was also the visionary creator of what remains one of the most remarkable and intimate collections of art in the world today and a dynamic supporter of artists of her time, encouraging music, literature, dance and creative thinking across artistic disciplines. Gardner installed her collection of works in a way to evoke intimate responses to the art, mixing paintings, furniture, textiles and objects from different cultures and periods among well-known European paintings and sculpture. Isabella Stewart Gardner is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, in Cambridge Mass., between her husband and her son. www.gardnermuseum.org /the_museum/isabella.asp   (1063 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Exhibits 'A Bronze Menagerie' | Art Knowledge News Isabella Stewart Gardner bought her bears in 1914 from a dealer in Paris with the advice of Bernard Berenson, a friend and connoisseur who had earlier helped her build the museum’s collection of Italian paintings. Isabella Gardner to Berenson in 1914: “The bears have come and are darlings – to live with, and delight in.” The exhibition presents Isabella Gardner’s bears alongside two bears from the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Museum of Art, providing the first opportunity to study the four bears together. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum • 280 The Fenway Boston MA 02115 www.gardnermuseum.org Modeled after a 15th-century Venetian palazzo with an interior courtyard garden, Gardner Museum houses a collection of fine art spanning 30 centuries and featuring Titian, Rembrandt, Botticelli and Sargent, as well as changing contemporary and historic exhibitions, classical concerts, lectures and special events. www.artknowledgenews.com /Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum.html   (590 words)

Gardner Isabella Stewart: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library Laura Owens: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by Francine Koslow Miller The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where Laura Owens spent...match for the eclecticism of Mrs. GARDNER, ISABELLA STEWART 1840 1924, American art collector...and J. Hatch, Jr., ed., The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Reproductions of Paintings (1935); M. Carter, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (1925, 2d ed... Well-known examples are the portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner and El Jaleo (Gardner Mus., Boston); the portraits of Madame X, the Wyndham sisters, Henry Marquand, and William Merritt... www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/gardner-isabella-stewart.jsp?l=G&p=1   (1561 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography Gardner was not a great beauty: she had red hair, very fair skin, and portraits show her as quite thin at a time when voluptuousness was in fashion, but she was quick-witted and an engaging conversationalist. Gardner was snubbed socially, however, because of her Paris-made dresses and New York vivacity, both of which were out of place in a Boston society still ruled by descendants of the Puritan founders. Gardner was known for evading duties by other means: she had been storing many of her treasures in a Paris warehouse, but fumed at the high cost. www.bookrags.com /biography/isabella-stewart-gardner   (1942 words)

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Renaissance Venetian Palace in Boston Isabella Stewart Gardner was born in New York City in 1840, the child of David Stewart who made his fortune in Irish linens and in mining. Isabella Stewart was educated at private schools in New York and Paris, becoming friends with Julia Gardner, Jack Gardner’s younger sister. Gardner was also a music-lover, so she dedicated one of the rooms, the Tapestry Room, to live concerts that still can be heard today on most weekends. www.travellady.com /Issues/July05/1402Isabella.htm   (1101 words)

wbur.org Arts - Visual Arts - Gardner Museum's Centennial One hundred years ago, on January 1, 1903, Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her museum of art in Boston's Fenway neighborhood with an evening reception and concert by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Gardner, who had amassed a 2,500 piece collection including rare books, Flemish tapestries, Roman sculpture, and masterworks by Titian, Rembrandt, Raphael, and Vermeer, the inauguration represented the culmination of two decades of intense collecting, as well as a firm commitment to public art and edification. Gardner died in 1924 after a series of strokes) included a $1 million endowment for museum activities, along with a stipulation that the artworks and installation were to remain exactly as she'd left them. www.wbur.org /arts/2002/49338_20021227.asp   (970 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, ... Gardner began collecting rare books and manuscripts in the 1870s, and her interests soon broadened. Gardner envisioned a museum that would resemble a grand house where a family had lived for generations, surrounded by their most cherished objects. Gardner lived in a fourth-floor apartment at Fenway Court and entertained frequently in the galleries. www.galenfrysinger.com /gardner_museum_boston.htm   (405 words)

FBI - Art Theft Program Robbery of priceless works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2 Palace Road, Boston, Massachusetts, March 18, 1990. On March 18, 1990, the Gardner Museum was robbed by two unknown white males dressed in police uniforms and identifying themselves a Boston police officers. The unknown subjects gained entrance into the museum by advising on-duty security personnel that they were responding to a call of a disturbance within the compound. www.fbi.gov /hq/cid/arttheft/northamerica/us/isabella/isabella.htm   (680 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Museum/Attraction Review | Boston | Frommers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) was an incorrigible individualist long before strong-willed behavior was acceptable for women in polite Boston society, and her iconoclasm paid off for art lovers. Gardner's death, holds a glorious hodgepodge of furniture and architectural details imported from European churches and palaces. Gardner's will forbid changing the arrangement of the museum's content, there has been some evolution: A special exhibition gallery features two or three changing shows a year, often by contemporary artists in residence. www.frommers.com /destinations/boston/A24252.html   (357 words)

Gardner, Isabella Stewart - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Announces its Centennial Anniversary; Releases Never Before Publicly Viewed Archival Material, Including Mural Drawings by John Singer Sargent & Watercolors by Isabella Stewart Gardner. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum reflects her flamboyant love of art.(Arts and Lifestyle) Isabella Gardner: Antes escandalosa, hoy viajera ejemplar.(De Viaje) www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-gardneri.html   (366 words)

CNN.com - The Isabella Gardner Museum heist - Nov. 26, 2002 In fact, the Gardner case spurred passage of the Theft of Major Artwork statute, making it a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for stealing any museum art more than a century old or worth at least $100,000. Isabella Stewart Gardner herself left specific instructions about how the museum should be maintained upon her death. Gardner willed that nothing in the collection, which includes approximately 2,500 pieces spanning 30 centuries, be changed. archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/11/26/ctv.traces.museum.heist   (2864 words)

Stolen the Film : Isabella Stewart Gardner Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), the founder of the Gardner Museum, amassed what was considered for many years the greatest private collection in America. Gardner bequeathed the museum -- her collection and the replica of an Italian Palazzo which houses the work -- to the city of Boston. The museum is a subject of intense debate within the academic community, due to her ironclad will, which stated that no one could add anything to nor remove anything from the collection, nor move anything from her rather unusual placement, which was often based on form, color, and juxtaposition instead of region and chronology. www.stolenthefilm.com /people_isabella.html   (235 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is at once an intimate collection of fine and decorative art and a vibrant, innovative venue for contemporary artists, musicians and scholars. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opened to the public on the evening of January 1st, 1903, with a musical and visual arts celebration. Isabella Stewart Gardner's vision that the Museum remain as she arranged it "for the education and enrichment of the public forever" is reflected in every aspect of the Museum. www.bostons-best.net /ISGM.htm   (602 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum -- NRHP Travel Itinerary The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, constructed between 1900-1902 under the strict guidance of its daring namesake, illustrates Gardner’s intense interest in contemporary European and ancient art, and it is an excellent example of an early 20th-century house museum as well. At first dismayed and saddened by her position, Gardner overcame her feelings and soon became, with her lavish parties and spirited discussions, one of Boston society's premier hostesses; she also became a patron of the Boston Symphony. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is located at 280 The Fenway in Boston, MA. www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/pwwmh/ma65.htm   (316 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Launches Free Classical Music Podcast – “The Concert” – Under a Creative ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Starting today, everyone who visits the website of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be able to download free classical music and share it with anyone, anywhere. "I don’t think Isabella Gardner could have imagined all the incredible innovations of the past century, but at its heart this podcast is a continuation of her vision for the museum, and of her spirit of adventure and creativity in supporting artists," says Anne Hawley, Norma Jean Calderwood Director of the Gardner Museum. Isabella Stewart Gardner established a legacy of music with the creation of her museum. creativecommons.org /press-releases/entry/6061   (1404 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner She married a wealthy Boston financier John Lowell Gardner in 1860 at the age of twenty. In 1888, Isabella was forty-six years old and the painting is very much of a woman still in her prime. The friendship between the two was warmly felt, and it was through Sargent that Isabella was able to acquire some significant pieces for her museum. www.jssgallery.org /Paintings/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner.htm   (821 words)

ART REVIEW: A Century in the Making -- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Celebrates Anniversary with Exhibit The quote describes Gardner’s integral and sometimes forceful role in building the museum, her frank rejection of some of the plans, and and even her firing of some of the masons. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s travels heavily influenced her collection and the architecture of the museum. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s dream of creating a unique cultural experience has certainly been realized, and will hopefully stay vibrant for centuries and centuries to come. www-tech.mit.edu /V123/N26/isabella_stewar.26a.html   (597 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Isabella Stewart, daughter of David and Adelia (Smith) Stewart and was born in New York, New York. She married John Lowell "Jack" Gardner, son of John L. and Catharine E. (Peabody) Gardner of Salem, Massachusetts on April 10, 1866 in New York, New York. His grandfather was the distinguished Salem shipowner, Joseph Peabody, who made a fortune importing pepper from Sumatra and was one of the wealthiest men in the United States at the time of his death in 1844. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner   (364 words)

Amazon.com: The Art of Scandal: The Life and Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner: Books: Douglass Shand-Tucci   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Isabella Stewart Gardner was a fascinating woman, and Shand-Tucci brings insight to her story, but the style is so intrusive as to be distracting. Gardner destroyed many of her letters and papers shortly before her death, so the fact that Shand-Tucci's insightful speculations about her seem plausible is no small feat. This is alleged to be a biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, and while she plays a part in this written mess, it is the Author, Douglas Shand-Tucci who places himself and his feelings on par with his alleged subject. www.amazon.com /Art-Scandal-Isabella-Stewart-Gardner/dp/0060929774   (2375 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a museum in Boston, Massachusetts with a collection of over 2,500 works of European, Asian and American art, including paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. The museum was established in 1903 by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), a wealthy patron of the arts. Gardner began collecting seriously after she received a large inheritance from her father in 1891. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum   (620 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been an important part of Boston culture for more than 100 years. It was the dream of wealthy Bostonian Isabella Gardner, and the collection grew out of Gardner's private pieces, which she had started accumulating while touring Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in the 1900s. Isabella instructed that museum, which is built in the style of a 15th century Venetian palace, be built around a garden that lights up the otherwise dark and somber building. masstraveljournal.com /features/0503Izzie.html   (367 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Boston - Reviews of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - TripAdvisor The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the Fenway area of Boston features a fine art collection housed in a building that is a work of art in... The vast array of art, artifacts, furniture and miscellania assembled by Isabella Stewart Gardner is mind-boggling; the villa in which the collection... "The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Renaissance Venetian Palace in Boston" TravelLady, Jul 1, 2005 www.tripadvisor.com /Attraction_Review-g60745-d108823-Reviews-Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum-Boston_Massachusetts.html   (996 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum/Project Zero Educational Collaboration Formerly the elaborate home of its founder, Isabella Stewart Gardner, the museum offers an intimate and secure setting in which innovative exercises can be introduced and monitored carefully. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum/Project Zero Educational Collaboration embraced the premise that museums offer a valuable opportunity to individualize education because visitors can approach the art at their own pace and pursue their own interests. Davis, J., and Gardner, H. The arts and early childhood education: A cognitive developmental portrait of the young child as artist. pzweb.harvard.edu /Research/Gardner.htm   (447 words)

Maurizio Cannavacciuolo: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ArtForum - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Upon his return to the museum in February 2004, he and his assistants took five weeks (during which time visitors could watch the creative process unfold through a window) to cover two white walls with hordes of extremely faint graphite outline drawings by tracing onto them the details of some three hundred projected slides. In seeming homage to the Gardner Museum's displays, which are themselves a hodgepodge of personal treasures mostly without labels, Cannavacciuolo blended images and text from its founder's journals with his own comprehensive diaries, details of his paintings, appropriated esoteric book illustrations, and popular comics. Repeated patterns are used as backdrop--from Gardner's sprawling script to Islamic tile to William Morris wallpaper. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_9_42/ai_n6080203   (469 words)

Artcom Museums Tour: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA Isabella Stewart Gardner left the museum for the education and enjoyment of the public forever. The Gardner Museum, designed in the style of a 15th-century Venetian palace, combines architecture, paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and the color and fragrance of a flowering interior courtyard to create a unique atmosphere and experience. Opened to the public in 1903, the museum is the remarkable achievement of Isabella Stewart Gardner, who formed the collection, designed the building, and then arranged her preeminent collection within its walls. www.artcom.com /Museums/nv/gl/02115-58.htm   (558 words)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) 's captivating and legendary queen of the arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and the impressive Venetian palace that she built between 1899 and 1902. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, has delighted millions of visitors ever since its doors were first opened to the public in 1903. Jack Gardner during the creation of her magnificent museum. www.k9ape.com /suzanne/gardner.html   (141 words)

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