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Wrinkles and Wisps. The new series of Museum Pieces, due for sale at Saks by the end of May, took even more scouring. One piece, an 1860 Chinese silk wall hanging from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, commemorates the 50th anniversary of a noble marriage; the figures are complete with embroidered wrinkles and fine wisps of hair. Jenny Bell backed the hanging with two layers of silk and cut it into two skirts (about $700 each...
...Rogier van der Weyden [April 5] contains a small misstatement that I would like to correct: Sir John Pope-Hennessy never agreed that the sitter was Philip the Good of Burgundy. Like me, he believed that the picture could be connected with the portrait of Philip's wife, Isabella of Portugal. But he realized that it was unlikely, to say the least, that Philip would have been painted not wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece...
Brooks had yet another picture of Isabella Stewart Gardner: "a local Queen Elizabeth, she cut off heads right and left and stuck them on again if it pleased her to do so; and, when the Bostonians called her an upstart, she cut off their ancestral heads by proving that she belonged to the house of Stuart...
Berenson was also aware of Isabella Stewart Gardner's familial vanity; he sold her portraits of Isabellas and paintings owned by Isabellas, Mrs. Jack "equated herself with all the Isabellas of History- from Spain to Italy- and so thorough was her identification that she would buy any work of art that was at all connected with any one of these illustrious ladies...
...Vermeer quality of natural lighting, stone floors, Gothic windows, and Flemish tapestries. The spring flowers that fill the courtyard intertwine with the Venetian stone and grow into ornamented columns. Her museum is a refuge from the noise, the pollution, and the threatening man-made environment today; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, unchanged in all these years, is one brief moment caught from fleeting time...