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100 reviewsIsabella Stewart Gardner's museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston's Fens in 1902. The museum would be a work of art in itself--the first built to house a private collection, which included the first Vermeer & first Botticelli in America. Its treasures encompassed not only paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, fine furniture--all in evocative, intimately personal arrangements. An extraordinary achievement of storytelling & scholarship, Chasing Beauty uncovers the multi-layered self-portrait encoded in the museum's objects & rooms, at the same time delivering the story of a life every bit as dazzling & haunting.
Born in 1840 to a privileged New York family, Isabella Stewart married Boston Brahmin Jack Gardner before she was twenty. Misunderstood by Boston's internecine society, Isabella suffered the death of her only child, a beloved two-year-old boy. In time, friendships, glittering & bohemian; awe-inspiring world travels; being in the presence of beautiful things; & soon enough collecting them with a keen eye & competitive pace--all these became balm for loss. Henry James & John Singer Sargent--whose portrait of Isabella was a masterpiece & 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, the uncovered story of the complex & singular woman behind one of the most fascinating museums in America & the world--a tale of beauty & loss, grit & American self-invention.
