Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924

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role

Collector Patron

dates

1840-1924

city

Boston

state

MA

sex

F

historical notes

Isabella Stewart Gardner was an art patron, collector, and museum founder.

Gardner, and others, hired Bernard Berenson 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.

decades
of activity

1860-1870
1870-1880
1880-1890
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920

website

http://www.gardnermuseum.org/

email

Information@isgm.org

phone

617 566 1401

updated

10/31/2024 13:33:16

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Isabella Stewart Gardner letters to Bernard Berenson, 1887-1924.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Isabella Stewart Gardner papers, 1760-1956.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Isabella Stewart Gardner letters to Bernard Berenson, 1887-1924.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Isabella Stewart Gardner papers, 1760-1956.	see details...
Massachusetts Historical Society	Gardner family papers, 1655-1959; bulk: 1820-1890.	see details...
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Archives	Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum collection	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	August Jaccaci papers, 1889-1935 (bulk 1904-1914).	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Oral history interview with William Milliken, 1974 Dec. 27-1976 Mar. 13.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Desmond Fitzgerald papers, 1868-1930.	see details...
Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies	The Fototeca Berenson (Villa I Tatti Photo Archives)	see details...