#isabella stewart gardner museum

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Isabella stewart gardner museum

(yesterday was a perfect day. 🖤)

[7pleiades7]

Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast (1882-1883) by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), oil on panel, 32 × 41 cm, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

[marzipanandminutiae]

can "activists" please stop trying to fuck with the empty frames at the Gardner museum. this is the second time the museum has had to close early to keep that from happening

like. first of all, the art museum climate protests that have happened so far piss me off despite the fact that I agree with their overall goals, because the messages in interviews all boil down to "how DARE you VALUE ART when BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING, ordinary museum-goer?!" but at least they've taken pains to not actually damage anything important (throwing soup on modern, sealed cases or glass barriers instead of the art itself, etc.)

the frames at the Gardner? are art in their own right. they are mostly very old and made by often-unacknowledged craftsmen who were incredibly talented. they're not the same as a modern barrier. AND they're there as a reminder of a time when some jerks stole art from the public so rich assholes could wall it up in private collections so only they got to enjoy it

like go puncture a CEO's tires or something that actually reaches the people responsible for this mess instead of ordinary humans (who probably already agree with you!) just trying to do the very Human Thing of appreciating art

EDIT: I double-checked, and last time their Thing was "why are people still talking about the Gardner heist, but NOBODY is talking about biodiversity loss?!?!?!"

which is just.

they are? just not usually in the same breath as an unsolved art theft case?

[lionofchaeronea]

Seated Scribe, variously attributed to Gentile Bellini or Costanzo da Ferrara, 1479-81

[raethereptile]

Daniel sassing about the stolen Rembrandt sends me every time; because you know, as an investigative journalist, he definitely had a go at solving the Gardner heist and got nowhere. And now "Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee" is just- hanging on the wall. Right in front of his salad.

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isabella stewart gardner museum / kodak ektar 100 / shot on canon f-1

[arthistoryanimalia]

Commemorating a Marriage: An Imperial Crane and Turtle Box via Gardner Museum

Crane and Turtle Box, Japan, 1894. Silver with gold and lacquer, height: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (M18e44.a-b)

[idkjustlemmedrownlikerab]

Guys it's an endless cycle, a cycle I'll never be able to get out of

I like art history and the Isabella Stewert Gardener heist in Boston 1990 is my Roman Empire

So every time I think of the Boston heist I remember art heist baby! Then I remember the heist they flawlessly pull off in the book, the same heist Regulus dies finishing, then I think about the house in Brazil which was supposed to be theirs but James has to grow old there alone then I think about the painting James stole for Regulus in the end, then I think about other paintings in the 19th century and then I think of the biggest heist in history aka Boston in 1990 and the deadly cycle continues...

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

📍The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA

photos by me (@edwardian-girl-next-door). reblogs are ok but please don't repost💖

[crystalclaire]

details of paintings by john singer sargent: sargent & fashion exhibit at the tate britain in london

Mrs Robert Harrison (Helen Smith), 1886; The Honourable Pauline Astor, 1898-9; In a Garden, Corfu, 1909

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 🖤

[7pleiades7]

In the Dressing Room (1910) by Louis Kronberg (American, 1872–1965), pastel on canvas, 60 x 49 cm, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

[the-cricket-chirps]

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Madame X, 1884

John Singer Sargent, Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888

[hyperiionvii]

an illustration for class- the assignment was to put an animal somewhere recognizable in boston. so here's an ostrich at the isabella stewart gardner.

(plus process below)

[taf-art]

When the Thing with Features Turned Red (After Tintoretto) (2021-22). Raqib Shaw.

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isabella stewart gardner museum / kodak ektar 100 / shot on canon f-1