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STRANGELY OUT OF PLACE IN terms of mood and presentation, a special exhibition of works by Sandro Botticelli at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum adds little to and may even detract from the overall experience of the most pleasant museum in Boston.
The interior of the gallery, however, is not at all what one would expect. Instead of another grand, richly decorated room of this quaint museum, one is instead greeted inside by white walls and pages upon pages of text by each of the few paintings exhibited. The small room reserved...
The name Botticelli summons up visions of Venus on the half-shell and elegantly-rendered deities of other kinds, but the view inside this exhibition is a bit disappointing. The exhibit brings together five paintings by Botticelli himself, three from his workshop and four prints derived from his designs. Sadly...
The greatest disappointment of all comes with the discovery that all the paintings in the exhibition have been removed from their permanent places in other parts of the museum. Endowed with only the most essential information, these paintings and prints in their original places were a part of a composition...
Other parts of the exhibition focus on the developing Soviet economy, which looks so promising from the propaganda (and at the time seemed so fruitful from the input-intensive growth experienced by the Soviets early on), that we can understand how the revolution appealed to so many intellectuals who participated...