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Isabella Stewart Gardner (Nueva York, 14 de abril de 1840-Boston, Massachusetts; 17 de julio de 1924) fue una destacada coleccionista de arte, filántropa y mecenas estadounidense. Fundó el Museo Isabella Stewart Gardner en Boston.
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.
Over the next 20 years, Isabella Stewart Gardner filled her museum with visual and performing artists; she organized concerts, lectures, and exhibitions, and encouraged artists to make themselves home in the museum.
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures and eras—and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to share these exquisite treasures with the world. But her life and work remain shrouded in myth.
Available now, Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life is the first biography of our remarkable founder produced by the Museum in nearly a century.
Isabella Stewart Gardner was an eclectic American socialite and art collector, a patron of many arts, remembered largely for the distinctive collection of European and Asian artworks that she assembled in Boston.
24 de nov. de 2022 · Nearly 100 years after her death, on July 17, 1924, the fame of Isabella Stewart Gardner endures, her name immortalized thanks to her eponymous Boston museum. The institution, of course, is home to many masterpieces—and is best known for those that are missing, stolen during a daring 1990 heist likely orchestrated by the Italian mafia.
