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	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museu: INCLUDED with the Go Boston Card
		The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a visceral art experience that is impossible to forget.
		At the Gardner, visitors find as much inspiration from the spectacular architecture and courtyard gardens as they do from the more than 2,500 works of art that overflow the museum’s galleries.
		True to its founder’s inspiration, the Gardner Museum continues to offer changing exhibitions, lectures, and musical performances that engage visitors of all ages.
	www.gobostoncard.com /attractions/Gardner-Museum.html (252 words)

	ISGM The Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.isabellastewartgardner.com /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 (643 words)

	The Great Gardner Art Heist
		One could say that it was the decision of the museum’s namesake herself – even though she died 66 years before the heist.
		When Gardner died in 1924, she left detailed instructions how the museum was to be maintained – that the galleries should not be altered in any way.
		The museum attracts local art-lovers, students and tourists with its turn-of-the-century charm, hodge-podge of galleries and well-manicured gardens in the center courtyard set in a 15th-century style Venetian palace.
	www.courttv.com /heist/isabella_museum.html (389 words)

	CNN.com - The Isabella Gardner Museum heist - Nov. 26, 2002
		Though museum officials are reluctant to talk about the robbery, which one museum source referred to as "an unfortunate part of the museum's history," empty frames that continue to hang on the walls serve as a constant reminder.
		Isabella Stewart Gardner herself left specific instructions about how the museum should be maintained upon her death.
		Museum officials no longer allow the press to photograph the empty frames, nor will they discuss the robbery at length, citing concerns that the ongoing investigation could be compromised.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/11/26/ctv.traces.museum.heist (2864 words)

	Gardner museum to grow - The Boston Globe
		Gardner, the art collector and Boston socialite, modeled the museum after a 15th-century Venetian palace and lived on its fourth floor until her death in 1924.
		Though museum officials say it is too early to estimate, the cost of a new building would probably be at least $60 million.
		Gardner officials say the museum has needed to expand for years, and Hawley remembers it being discussed when she took over in 1989.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/11/29/gardner_museum_to_grow (1111 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)

	The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Renaissance Venetian Palace in Boston
		The museum itself is a work of art, a testament of the sensibilities and personality of Isabella Stewart Gardner, with unusual stories, intimate portrayals, revealing her artistic flair and sense of vitality.
		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.
		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
		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 proceeded with her plans to convert her now extensive collection into a public museum and purchased a tract of recently filled-in swampland along Boston's Fens.
		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 (957 words)

	Boston: Het Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
		Gardner's echtgenoot Jack schreef op de dag van de aankoop, 5 december 1892, laconiek in zijn reisjournaal: `Geluncht in het Café de Paris.
		Isabella Gardner was een levende legende in het Amerika van de Gilded Age, het laatste kwart van de negentiende eeuw.
		Isabella Gardner werd op 14 april 1840 in New York geboren als de oudste dochter van David Stewart, een redelijk gefortuneerde handelaar in linnen.
	www.amerika.nl /reizen/html/staten/newengland/mass/gardnermus.htm (1874 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.
		The Gardner Museum is much admired for the intimate atmosphere in which its works of art are displayed and its flower-filled courtyard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum (626 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 property is a museum of art and is open to the public 11am to 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday and holidays which fall on Mondays.
	www.nps.gov /history/nr/travel/pwwmh/ma65.htm (316 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)

	Henrik Hakansson: Artist in Residence - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - absolutearts.com
		The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston examines politically-charged issues associated with conservation, theft and extinction in nature and the arts this summer with Henrik Håkansson (June 30 through September 17, 2006), a contemporary exhibition of sight and sound by Swedish multi-media artist and 2003 Artist-in-Residence Henrik Hakansson.
		The former Gardner Museum Artist-In-Residence Dan Harvey and collaborator Heather Ackroyd presented an exhibition of original grass photographs in Presence at the Gardner Museum in 2002.
		Gardner Museum Contemporary Curator Pieranna Cavalchini is also available to speak with about the project, its evolution and/or connections between theft in the natural and art worlds.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2006/06/30/34011.html (467 words)

	ART REVIEW: A Century in the Making -- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Celebrates Anniversary with Exhibit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tucked away behind the vast spread of the Museum of Fine Arts and protected from the bustle of Huntington Avenue, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a little piece of paradise hidden away in a corner of southern Boston.
		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.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V123/N26/isabella_stewar.26a.html (597 words)

	The Isabella Steward Gardner Museum \| Arts \| The Tufts Observer Online
		The word “museum” may make some of you cringe, but I promise there is no way you can be disappointed by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
		Gardner had finished putting together her museum, she drew an impressive crowd of guests and artists to visit and perform there.
		Stewart’s collection, as by comparison, you will be in even greater awe of what she has achieved.
	www.tuftsobserver.org /arts/20050831/the_isabella_steward_gard.html (1012 words)

	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
		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.
		Two things that are probably most noticeable about the museum are the lush garden in the center courtyard and the occasional empty gilded frames on the walls.
		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 \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Boston \| Frommers.com
		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 (374 words)

	Biography for: Isabella Stewart Gardner
		Isabella Stewart Gardner ('Mrs Jack') was a collector, patron of the arts and Boston socialite.
		Unlike other museums, there are few labels and no barriers, yet to maintain Mrs Gardner's idiosyncratic arrangement, moveable objects are bolted to surfaces and some of the dark red floor tiles are painted orange, like marks on a stage, to indicate exactly where chair legs should go.
		Mrs Gardner's unassailable position as the 'Queen of Holy Back Bay' living in her self-made palace is encapsulated by her portrait by Sargent (1888) that hangs in the Gothic Room of Fenway Court.
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Gard_IS.htm (1053 words)

	Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Museum, is a Venetian-style palace that houses the spectacular Renaissance and early Impressionist artworks collected by its late owner.
		Gardner was very involved in the display and staging of the art work that she had collected and we found the affect somewhat scattered and disjointed.
		The Gardner museum is something you're either going to love or it will leave you cold.
	www.finias.com /scrapbook/isabella_stewart_gardener_museum.htm (146 words)

	Empty hands, silent mouths - installation art, Juan Munoz, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts Art ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gardner herself has been called Boston's first installation artist for having flamboyantly assembled the artifacts and styles of various cultures and eras in her ersatz Venetian palace.
		The Spanish artist Juan Munoz, who was in residence at the Gardner Museum last fall, has in the past made spare tableaux of architectural elements such as columns, balconies, parquet floors and handrails, peopled with clumsy wood or terra-cotta figures.
		Munoz's installation in the temporary exhibition gallery, a small white cubic space separated from the museum proper, was on view from Sept. 12 to Dec. 31, 1995.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n3_v84/ai_18119052 (915 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 property is a museum of art and is open to the public 11am to 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday and holidays which fall on Mondays.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/pwwmh/ma65.htm (316 words)

	Hidden Traces
		The pair of "cops" told the two security guards on duty they had received a report of a disturbance in the museum's garden, located in the center courtyard of the 15th-century Venetian-style palace that was once home to the museum's benefactor, turn-of-the-century socialite Isabella Stewart Gardner.
		Though it was museum policy not to allow anyone — not even police — inside the museum at night, the security guards opened the door.
		The courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
	www.courttv.com /news/hiddentraces/heist/page1.html (755 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/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.
		Project collaborators worked to generate principles and practices that would apply to museum education in general, enabling people of all ages and backgrounds to approach their museum experiences with greater confidence and enthusiasm.
		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.
	pzweb.harvard.edu /Research/Gardner.htm (447 words)

	The Victory Garden . Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It's said that at her parties, Isabella Stewart Gardner would make a grand entrance by emerging at the top of this staircase that leads down into the courtyard.
		Gardner (1840 - 1924) was renowned for her love of flowers, and she would often arrive at public gatherings and balls with her arms full of bouquets sent by admirers.
		Gardner's day the Courtyard was predominantly Mediterranean in style, adorned with dozens of tall palms, orchids, and azaleas.
	pbs.org /wgbh/victorygarden/victorygardens/othergardens/isgmuseum.html (426 words)

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