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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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platonic painter and patron
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A dashing individualist, with the showmanship of Ziegfeld and the temper of Toscanini, she took Boston by storm. A passion for old master art, young men and music all seemed to come together in one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum Gothic Room, Henry Adams, Henry E. Huntington, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, James J. Rorimer, John Singer Sargent, Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride, Madame Gautreau madame X, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, raphael paintings
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berenson: such a deal
The whole thing was a scandal. Authenticating Old Master art, inflating the price, actig for the buyer and making commission as a seller. But there behavior probably reflected the same values and mannerisms of the wealthy industrial class they were … Continue reading
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Tagged Clive Bell, Erwin Panofsky, Fosco Maraini, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, joseph duveen, Leo Nardus, Lord Allendale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Morellian, P.A.B. Widener, Raphael, Richard Offner, Robert Langton Douglas, Roger Fry, Sir Charles Holmes, Wilhelm von Bode
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sweep out the ashes
Eccentric she was.A black sheep never quite accepted by Boston’s first families. Quirky. An only in America original. She had edge, she had flash; a dashing individualist Isabella Stewart Gardner “Mrs. Jack” startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Berenson, Cleveland Amory, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter biographer, Nellie Melba
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Money is the sixth sense
Isabella Stewart Gardner was certainly no prude. She liked to tell risque jokes in public, and she did her best to shake up, startle, and rattle staid old Boston society. Her pleasure dome in the Back Bay filled with masterpieces … Continue reading
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Tagged Anders Zorn, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Edith Wharton, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gentile Bellini, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John L. Sullivan, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter
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canvas and the pound of flesh
The rape of Europa by Titian is probably the most celebrated painting in the collection of Old Masters assembled by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the turn of the last century. It hangs, all 70×80 inches of it, in a heavy … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Berenson, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, King Philip II Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Otto Gutekunst, Robert Hughes, Sir Joseph Duveen, Titian The Rape of Europa
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she bought what she wanted: money’s worth
It was a palace of paintings. For conservative old Beantown, she was simply startling and an individualist; she erected a Venetian pleasure dome in the Back Bay and filled it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy. …In 1892 Mrs. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Allan Chong Gardner, Anthony Van Dyck, Benvenuto Cellini, Bernard Berenson, Bindo Altoviti, boticelli, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Pallffy, Edgar Degas, Fra Angelico, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, john sargent singer, Morris Carter, Simone Martini, Villa Livia Rome
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palace of paintings
“Mrs. Jack” as she was called startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure dome in the Back Bay and filling it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy. Isabela Stewart Gardner, a dashing individualist, pioneered the creation of a … Continue reading
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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madame x : plantation to paris
The French were considered to have less scruples relating to eroticism than the English. Manet’s Olympia broke the mold, but, in an exhibition where paintings of nudes were common, that of Madame Gautreau in black evening dress was considered more … Continue reading
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