Product Description: The official companion book to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s hundredth anniversary celebration During her lifetime (1840–1924) Isabella Stewart Gardner was at the heart of Victorian Boston’s liveliest salon. Henry and William James, Henry Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John LaFarge, James McNeill Whistler, Bernard Berenson, and John Singer Sargent all gathered at Fenway Court, in the company of works by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Titian, Raphael, Rubens, and Rembrandt...read more

Product Description: If Rembrandt's career had ended in 1631, before the 25-year-old artist moved from his native town of Leiden to the booming metropolis of Amsterdam, how would history remember him? This is the theme of Rembrandt Creates Rembrandt. Rembrandt's work in Leiden was already extraordinarily creative and intensely dramatic...read more

Product Description: Lee Mingwei's simple yet elegant installations provide a stage for interpersonal exchange around ordinary human events or activities -- admiring an object, making conversation, or writing a letter to a friend or family member. His past installations such as "The Dining Project "and "The Letter-Writing Project" are explored along with a recent project developed while an artist in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum called "The Living Room...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A new look at a neglected aspect of Sargent's oeuvre.

Product Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic explores the love of imaging he and photographer Abelardo Morell share as both strive to reveal the ordinary in their work. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work is a guide to the collection in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. It also offers a narrative history, combining art historical, social and historical analysis, with stories about how the collection was acquired.