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...leash down the street in Boston? Liberated? Pretentious? Health nut? Isabella Stewart Gardner did all these things in Boston in the 1890's; she was cheered, jeered, envied and snubbed. This unusual woman viewed the streets of Cambridge and Boston as canals leading to her inside-out, quasi-Venetian palace just across from the Museum of Fine Arts, on the Fens of Boston. With a mere handkerchief she outbid Europe for a Vermeer, and with her husband's shipping fortune she bought a great collection of Italian paintings...
...trip- Mrs. Jack Gardner. A correspondence between Mrs. Jack and her protege Berenson commenced, yet his unproductive and lackluster early years of study brought a stop to the letters and financial encouragement of Mrs. Gardner. Not until 1894, when Berenson presented her with "a little book on Venetian painting," was he to regain her confidence, this time a confidence great enough for her to want him as her art consultant...
...Jack never specified in her will that concerts be given in her Venetian Palace after her death, yet the trustees of the Museum decided that it was the intent of her will to continue support for young musicians by providing performances at the Museum. These concerts three days a week continue the tradition of giving starting performers a chance before their big debuts...
Knowing More. This kind of scholarship and expertise is essential to a private dealer's success. "About nine years ago I was walking down Portobello Road in London when I saw a Venetian bronze in a stall," said Michael Hall, 44, a specialist in Renaissance sculpture. "I recognized it as an important piece and I bought it for a few pounds, but afterward I felt guilty because the dealer wasn't too well off and didn't know what he had. I can't tell you who the sculptor was just now, but last year...
Engine of Commerce. The point is as clear as it is contemporary. Money and goods are what the Venetian world turns on. But in Miller's conception, the obsession is shared not only by Shylock and his fellow usurers but also among those who look down on Shylock-Christian merchants, lovers, well-born ladies. All levels of society are driven by the engine of commerce, in marriage contracts no less than in other transactions...