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Isabel Stuart (28 August 1676 – 2 March 1681), also called Isobel and Isabella, [1] was a daughter of the future King James II of England and his second wife, Mary of Modena . Isabel was born at St James's Palace in London. [2] She was the second daughter of James and Mary, after her sister Catherine Laura who died eleven months before Isabel ...
Isabella’s views on political, civic, and social issues – as far as they are known – were complex and sometimes contradictory. She was a civic leader and social reformer ahead of her time, and she also sometimes expressed racial, ethnic, and social bias, decidedly out of step with our 21st century sensibilities. She was a privileged woman of great wealth who saw herself as part of a ...
Die US-amerikanische Kunstsammlerin und Mäzenin Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) ließ in der Zeit von 1896 bis 1903 das nach ihr benannte Museum von Grund auf neu im historisierenden Neorenaissance-Stil eines venezianischen Palazzo errichten. Sie trug auf ihren Reisen, unterstützt durch ihren Berater Bernard Berenson, den damals ...
24. Nov. 2022 · Nearly 100 years after her death, on July 17, 1924, the fame of Isabella Stewart Gardner endures, her name immortalized thanks to her eponymous Boston museum.The institution, of course, is home to ...
Isabella Stewart Gardner suffered a stroke in 1919, but continued to receive guests in her museum for the next five years. She died in 1924, leaving a museum “for the education and enjoyment of the public forever.” She provided an endowment to operate the museum, stipulating in her will that nothing in the galleries should be changed, and no items be acquired or sold from the collection ...
Available now, Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life is the first biography of our remarkable founder produced by the Museum in nearly a century.
Isabella Stewart Gardner (April 14, 1840 – July 17, 1924) was an American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Gardner possessed an energetic intellectual curiosity, a love of travel, and, most importantly, money.
