Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner (Dykstra Natalie)(Pevná vazba)

The vivid and masterful story of an American original--creator of one of America's most stunning museums--whose own life was remade by artIsabella Stewart Gardner's museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston's Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture--all in evocative, intimately personal arrangements.An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty provides compelling insight into the multilayered self-portrait encoded in the museum's objects and rooms--and delivers the absorbing story of a life every bit as dazzling and haunting.Born in 1840 to a privileged New York family, Isabella Stewart married Boston Brahmin Jack Gardner as she
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