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Natalie Dykstra Chasing Beauty (Paperback). Author: Natalie Dykstra. Title: Chasing Beauty. Format: Paperback. Item Width: 33mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Bernard Berenson, leading connoisseur of the Italian Renaissance, was her art dealer. Further DetailsTitle: Chasing Beauty Condition: New Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0063378353 Subtitle: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner Author: Natalie Dykstra EAN: 9780063378353 ISBN: 9780063378353 Publisher: HarperCollins Genre: Arts & Photography Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, History, Society & Culture, Biography Language: English Type: 20th Century Item Length: 152mm Item Height: 229mm Release Date: 05/08/2025 Description: 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. Marfield Prize Winner 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. Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Width: 33mm Item Weight: 531g Release Year: 2025 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
