Tag Archives: Carlo Crivelli

Gardner: drawn as if by lightning

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Dave

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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Just a little fix-me-upper

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Dave

Conjuring up fantastic towers and non-existant cities, painters across the centuries have created a dream architecture of gaudy, improbable, and often psychologically revealing buildings. They are mansions of the imagination, as if the expansiveness of such imagination could be limited … Continue reading →