Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
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Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
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Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
Gardner, Isabella Stewart
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Gardner, Isabella Stewart
Gardnier, Isabella (Stewart), 1840-1924
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Gardnier, Isabella (Stewart), 1840-1924
Gardner, Isabella S.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner
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Isabella Stewart Gardner
Gardner, Isabella S., 1893
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Gardner, Isabella S., 1893
Stewart, Isabella 1840-1924
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Stewart, Isabella 1840-1924
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American collector.
Art collector and patron; Mrs. Jack Gardner.
Art historian, critic, collector, and teacher; Florence, Italy.
First name often spelled Bernhard. Was "discovered" by Isabella Stewart Gardner immediately after his graduation from Harvard. As a patron of the fine arts, Gardner financed Berenson's travels in Italy to collect Italian Renaissance art for the Venetian palazzo she re-created in Boston. Berenson bought Villa I Tatti, his home in Florence, before the Second World War. During the war he and his wife and his personal secretary were exiles in the villa for several years. He lived there until his death where upon he bequeathed it to Harvard University.
Art patron, collector, and museum founder; Boston, Mass.
Immediately after graduation from Harvard, Bernard Berenson was hired by Gardner to travel throughout Italy collecting Italian Renaissance art for her recreated Venetian palazzo in Boston. She established her palazzo as a museum of fine European art with stipulations that after her death none of the exhibited works was to be moved or rearranged, but left as she had designed during her lifetime.
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Art
Art critics
Art historians
Art, Italian
Art museums
Art patronage
Art patrons
Art, Renaissance
Painting, Renaissance
Sculpture, Renaissance
Women art collecters
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Women art collectors
Women art patrons
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Massachusetts--Boston
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United States
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Massachusetts--Boston
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Japan
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Massachusetts--Boston
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Italy
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Italy--Venice
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