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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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