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A Date with Art and History in Boston’s Famed Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A Date with Art and History in Boston’s Famed Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Renowned as the birthplace of liberty and its prolific architectural wonders, Boston is a pleasant culmination of the old and the new. The epicentre of democracy for four centuries, the townâ??s early settlers called this the ‘shining city on a hillâ?? which has transformed in to one of the countryâ??s pioneering cities and a hub for the nationâ??s artistic, literary and architectural intelligentsia.
As one of the worldâ??s most famous college towns, Boston is also home to some of Americaâ??s finest museums such as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Founded in 1903 this sprawling 15th century Venetian castle with its lush garden and full bloom courtyard houses the countryâ??s most illustrious art collections to date. Three storeys high, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum offers visitors a myriad of galleries with over 2500 sculptures, furniture, rare publications, tapestries, manuscripts and paintings as well as decorative arts of various origins that encompass thirty centuries.
Set in its idyllic backdrop the museum creates the perfect atmosphere for engaging the senses with the greatest artists the world has known and their work in attendance. With collections by Raphael, Rembrandt, Sargent, Michelangelo, Titian, Whistler Botticelli and Degas on offer it is easy to understand why the museum is a hotspot of education, historic art, music, horticulture and contemporary art.
The museumâ??s permanent collection includes Japanese blinds, ceramics, drawings and jewellery in addition to an impressive collection of paintings from the Italian Renaissance. The first Matisse ever to make its way in to an American museum can also be seen in the Yellow Room while correspondence letters by T.S. Eliot, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Adams and Sarah Bernhardt are also on display as are authentic Dante manuscripts. The contemporary arts collection on-site boast the work of such geniuses as Ruth St. Denis, John Singer Sargent, Charles Martin Loeffler and many more while budding artists are given the opportunity to live and fine tune their work within the hallowed grounds of the museum through the Artists-in-Residence program. The museum goes a step further in exhibiting the work of its ingénues on the premises thus giving potential artists the platform to garner world attention.
