Chasing Beauty av Natalie Dykstra

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<p><strong>The vivid and masterful story of</strong> <strong>Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original</strong> <strong>whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella’s world, museum,</strong> <strong>and the art</strong> <strong>she collected.</strong></p><p>Isabella 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.</p><p>An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, <em>Chasing Beauty</em> illuminates the fascinating ways the museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of memoir, dazzling and haunting, created with objects instead of words and displayed per Isabella’s wishes in the exact placem