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Isabella Stewart Gardner (April 14, 1840 – July 17, 1924) was an American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Gardner possessed an energetic intellectual curiosity, a love of travel, and, most importantly, money.
Virgin and Child with an Angel also known as Our Lady of the Eucharist (Italian: Madonna dell'Eucarestia) is a painting in tempera on wood panel by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, executed in c. 1470. It is now held by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, having been acquired from Prince Chigi in 1899.
Pages in category "Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Gardner, whose museum was the target of the world's largest art heist, led an eccentric life with almost as many plot twists as the Netflix series. Gardner, whose museum was the target of the ...
It was founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner, whose will called for her art collection to be permanently exhibited "for the education and enjoyment of the public forever." The museum opened in 1903. An auxiliary wing designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano , adjacent to the original structure near the Back Bay Fens , was completed in 2012.
Gardner Annunciation by da Amelia, displayed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston Piermatteo is also known as the Master of the Gardner Annunciation for a series of works depicting the Annunciation which were painted for the convent of Saints Annunziata and Amelia; in 1880 these came into the possession of Isabella Stewart Gardner ...
The painting was included in the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures exhibition. [8] It was purchased by Bernard Berenson on behalf of art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1896. [9] It was not stolen during the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft in 1990, despite being the most expensive painting in Boston at the time. [10]
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston The Pietà for Vittoria Colonna is a black chalk drawing on cardboard (28.9×18.9 cm) attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti , dated to about 1538–1544 and kept at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston .