Letters, business records, diary, and photographs.
REEL 380-413: Primarily correspondence, mostly Gardner's own, but including family correspondence and Gardner Museum correspondence.
REELS 631-632: Personal papers of Gardner and some records of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum including dealers' files containing invoices, notes, cancelled checks, and letters; a record book, "Prices Paid for Paintings," 1917; a record book, "Prices Paid for Works of Art"; 118 installation photographs of the museum as arranged by Gardner, 1924; a diary kept in Egypt, 1874, with sketches; a diary kept in Shanghai and India, 1883-1884; "Directions for my funeral," 1912; and "Suggestions for Running a Museum," 1913.
REELS 696-698: Letters from Bernard Berenson to Gardner, 1887-1924. Letters contain references to literary topics, Berenson's impressions of Europe, various paintings and artists, advice to Gardner on the purchase of paintings and information on their sale.
REEL 846: Checklist of Gardner's letters to Bernard and Mary Berenson, 1894-1924; typescripts of personal and official correspondence (originals found on AAA microfilm reels 696-698), 1887-1924.
Biographical / Historical:
Isabella Stewart Gardner was an art patron, collector, and museum founder in Boston, Mass. Immediately after graduation from Harvard, Bernard Berenson was hired by Gardner 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.
Provenance:
Microfilm lent by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for duplicating, 1972-1975.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Occupation:
Art patrons -- Massachusetts -- Boston Search this
Topic:
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Massachusetts -- Boston Search this
Art, Renaissance -- Massachusetts -- Boston Search this
The crossroads of fate = I crocevia del fato = Tsuchida yasuhiko unmei no kōsaten / Tsuchida Yasuhiko ; art direction & book design, Mitsuo Katsui ; photographer, Tetsuro Takai
Title:
The crossroads of fate = I crocevia del fato = 土田康彦 : 運命の交差点 / 土田康彦著
18th century Venetian art in Canadian collections = L'art vénitien du dix-huitième siècle dans les collections canadiennes / George Knox ; [photography, Jim Jardine ; translation, Vanina Katz-Lahaigue]
Arte veneziana e arte islamica : atti del Primo simposio internazionale sull'arte veneziana e l'arte islamica / a cura di Ernest J. Grube con la collaborazione di Stefano Carboni e Giovanni Curatola
Author:
Simposio internazionale sull'art veneziana e l'arte islamica (1st : 1986 : Venice, Italy) Search this
Venise et l'orient, 828-1797 : exposition présentée à l'Institut du monde arabe, Paris, du 2 octobre 2006 au 18 février 2007, au Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, du 26 mars au 8 juillet 2007 / [catalogue ... sous la direction de Stefano Carboni]
