Word: isabella
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...attempt at one in 1986 was smaller and less intelligently planned, and this one does full justice to Sargent's watercolors, an essential side of his work. In fact there probably can never be a complete Sargent show, because his enormous early masterpiece, El Jaleo, 1882, cannot leave the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. But this is the best look at him in living memory...
...tuxedoed on their sold-out tours of Europe and the U.S., they spiked their tight harmonies with expert, deadpan vocal clowning; they could imitate band instruments and barnyard fowl. They sang a love song to a little green cactus. They had hits with skewered serenades to girls named Veronika, Isabella, Marie, Lisa and, most famously, Johanna...
...lecturer speaking in the Tapestry Room at the Gardner Museum has Isabella Gardner to thank for endowing the place with a magical feeling that tickles audience's souls and subdues their critical faculties. Had Terence Riley, chief curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at Museum of Modern Art in New York, stood at the podium and screamed out math equations-in German-he probably still would have been a crowd pleaser...
Josiah McElheny revives the Renaissance with his glass work that imitates past Venetian glass-blowing styles. "The Story of Glass" will be at the Gardner Museum until April 25. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway. 566-1401. Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. $10 ($11 on weekends...
...more educated the patron, the more difficult life could get for the artist. Alfonso's elder sister Isabella, the Marquesa of Mantua, was always cooking up complicated literary programs for potential paintings with the help of her court poet; she would then pass the ideas on to Perugino, one of her court artists, with instructions not to invent anything of his own. Something of this kind may have happened at Alfonso's court, whose star poet was none other than Ludovico Ariosto, author of the enormously successful epic Orlando Furioso. Dosso did some paintings that were illustrations of episodes from...