Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Nielsen, Christina

Publication

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

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Riley, Casey
• Silver, Nathaniel E.

Description

ix, 205 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

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.

Subjects

• Guidebooks
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Guidebooks

Genre/Form

Guidebooks.

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index (pages 201-205)

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.

Call Number

JQE 18-40

ISBN

• 0300226470
• 9780300226478

LCCN

2017939207

OCLC

1007807635

Author

Nielsen, Christina, author.

Title

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

Publisher

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

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes index (pages 201-205)

Added Author

Riley, Casey, contributor.

Silver, Nathaniel E., contributor.

Research Call Number

JQE 18-40