Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum : a guide / Christina Nielsen with Casey Riley and Nathaniel Silver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nielsen, Christina, author.

Contributor:

Riley, Casey (Curator), contributor.

Silver, Nathaniel E., contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--Guidebooks.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

ix, 205 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2017]

Summary:

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is world renowned for a superb collection of over 10,000 objects that range from ancient Chinese bronzes to Renaissance tapestries, from paintings by Raphael and Rubens to those of Whistler and Matisse. This guidebook charts new pathways through the beloved institution and tells the story its founder, a trail-blazing American who was among the most prominent patrons of her day. Isabella Stewart Gardner built a Venetian-inspired palazzo in Boston to house her exquisite and thought-provoking arrangement of art objects from diverse cultures and periods of history to share with the world. she hosted luminaries in the worlds of music, dance, and literature and supported such famed artists as Henry James and John Singer Sargent. Exploring the museum room by room, the authors of this book look at masterpieces by Botticelli, Rembrandt, Titian, and others, as well as hidden treasures, including often overlooked decorative arts, collected letters, and photographs. Rather than positioning the museum simply as a historical gem, they present it as a site for forging connections between past and present and reinforcing the founder's legacy of sustaining contemporary art, music, and education with initiatives supported by space in the New Wing designed by Renzo Piano and constructed in 2012. Featuring spectacular photography, the book captures this unique museum, helping us consider anew what the museum meant in Gardner's time and what it means in ours.

Contents:

Director's foreword

Acknowledgments

Isabella Stewart Gardner

The collection

First floor : Courtyard and cloisters

Spanish cloister and Spanish chapel

Chinese loggia

Yellow room

Fenway gallery

Blue room

Vatichino

Macknight room

Worthington Street lobby. Second floor : Early Italian room

Raphael room

Short gallery

Little salon

Tapestry room

Dutch room

Theft

Third floor : Stairhalls

Veronese room

Titian room

Long gallery and chapel

Gothic room

Fourth floor

Isabella Stewart Gardner's legacy

Index

Photographic credits.

Notes:

"Succeeds 'The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Companion Guide and History,' published 1995 by Yale University Press"

Includes index (pages 201-205)

ISBN:

0300226470

9780300226478

OCLC:

1007807635