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Jun 20, 2024 · Yet in the dazzling Chasing Beauty, Dykstra found a way into Gardner’s life through diligent research that uncovered traces of the woman in the worlds she inhabited. Evocative and absorbing, the book benefits from an approach favored by Robert Caro, the acclaimed biographer of Lyndon B. Johnson.
Jun 21, 2024 · 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.
Jun 20, 2024 · Creator of the eponymous art museum in Boston (and scene of the most notorious – and unsolved – art thefts in history), Gardner was an ambitious and innovative American original, a complex and singular woman of grit and self-invention whose own life was remade through art.
Jun 9, 2024 · Natalie Dykstra’s Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner brings to life one of American art history’s main characters, whose Fenway palazzo lives on as a vital center for art in Boston and the wider world.
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Jun 21, 2024 · Her latest biography, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, will be published by Mariner on March 26, 2024.
6 days ago · CHASING BEAUTY tells the life story of Isabella Stewart Gardner of Boston Museum fame. What a life she led touring the world, gathering an eclectic array of art of all kinds, and hobnobbing with the rich and fame of the art world.
