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glories of ownership
The noble houses of eighteenth century England… …For these rooms no expense was spared. The finest plaster workers were brought in from Italy; tons of mahogany and other rare woods were imported from the East and West Indies; gold leaf … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Palladio, Andrew Mellon art collection, Catherine of Russia, David Allan painter Scotland, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Houghton Hall England, Lord Sandys, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Adam Architect, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Peter Beckford, Sir Robert Walpole, Surgeon William inglis, Syon House, Vanbrugh estates England, William Kent Architect
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a country doctor: chasing the maid through the gallery
It is another odd Kafka story: A Country Doctor. And the story of another peculiar fellow: Bernard Berenson. The aesthete and art dealer/pundit of late nineteenth-early twentieth century who promoted and profited from selling Italian Renaissance art to the deep … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Mellon, Andrew Mellon art collection, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Ernest Samuels, Franz Kafka, Giovanni Morelli, isabella stewart gardner, joseph duveen, Kenneth Clark, Kurt Lewin, meryle secrest, Nicky Mariano, Pascal Bruckner, sandor gilman, Sylvia Sprigge
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Gardner: drawn as if by lightning
A dashing individualist, “Mrs. Jack” Gardner startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure dome in Back Bay and filling it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy… In buying old masters, Mrs. Gardner was a generation ahead of tycoons … Continue reading
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Tagged Anders Zorn, Andrew Mellon art collection, Bernard Berenson, Carlo Crivelli, Fenway Court Boston, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum heist, Gardner Museum Heist 1990, Henry Clay Frick art collection, isabella stewart gardner, Isabelle Stewart Gardner, isabelle stewart gardner museum, James McNeill Whistler, James Whitey Bulger, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Perseus-Andromeda legend, Saint George Medieval Knight
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