Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

We went to the Gardner Museum yesterday. It was recommended to us by a woman name Karen who lives on the 14th floor. We met her at the picnic last weekend. The courtyard in the museum was beautiful.

Here's some info:
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/
The museum was established in 1903 by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), a wealthy patron of the arts. It is housed in a building designed to evoke a Venetian Renaissance palazzo, but it was built entirely from the ground up in Boston, out of new materials, but incorporating numerous architectural fragments from European Gothic and Renaissance structures.

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