While in Boston this weekend, Jenna and I visited the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum. In the early 1900's a really rich lady collected a ton of art and made her own museum. She and her husband lived upstairs (the building is 4 floors, they lived in the top floor). How do you think that guy felt? "Seriously? You bought another tapestry? And what do we need all these 'antique' chairs for? Why can't we at least sit on them?!?"
There was some amazing pieces there and it was really interesting to see. Of course, Jenna knew all kind of facts about the European stuff after her studies in England (smarty pants!).
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum displays an art collection of world importance, including works that rank among the most significant of their type. Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 2,500 objects - paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, photographs and letters - from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America. Built to evoke a 15th-century Venetian palace, the Museum itself provides an atmospheric setting for Isabella Stewart Gardner's inventive creation.
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