Chasing Beauty-Art: general-買書書 BuyBookBook

滾動圖像以放大點擊圖片放大

Chasing Beauty

Name: Chasing Beauty
Brand: Mariner Books
SKU: 9781328515759-HCUSDTR
Price: 233.0 HKD
Availability: OutOfStock

The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Natalie Dykstra (Author) ... more

... more

Edition: Hardback

貨品

價格:

HK$233.00 HK$375.00

庫存狀態:

沒有存貨

數量:

Product Info

English

512 pages • 15.24 x 22.86 公分

Approx. weight: 0.67 kg

Publication date: 26 Mar,2024

Barcode/ ISBN: 9781328515759 • Mariner Books

More books in English for Age -

Art: general

分享這個產品

By: Natalie Dykstra

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella’s world, museum, and the art she collected.

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.

An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty 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 placements she initially curated.

Born in 1840 to a privileged New York family, Isabella Stewart married Boston Brahmin Jack Gardner as she turned twenty. She was misunderstood by Boston’s insular society and suffered the death of her only child, a beloved boy, not yet two years old.

But in time came friendships, glittering and bohemian; awe-inspiring world travels; and collecting beautiful things with a keen eye and competitive pace—all these were balm for loss. Henry James and John Singer Sargent—whose portrait of Isabella was a masterpiece and a scandal—came to recognize her originality. Bernard Berenson, leading connoisseur of the Italian Renaissance, was her art dealer.

From award-winning author Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty is the story of the complex and singular woman behind one of the most fascinating museums in the nation and the world—a tale of beauty and loss, grit and American self-invention.