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Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces
Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces will feature twenty highlights from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s incomparable collection. This once-in-lifetime exhibition will provide visitors with direct access to extraordinary works by artists such as Botticelli, Raphael, and Rembrandt, among others. Placing select group of paintings and drawings in our contemporary exhibition space, seen up close and lit to best advantage, will allow us to reconsider the museum’s rich holdings and to think anew about how works from the Renaissance to the Rococo speak to us today. In addition to the artworks themselves, a selection of archival material will focus on Gardner herself as a collector and will illuminate how she tapped into an international network of artists and scholars to put together such an extraordinary collection. Taken together, both the masterpieces and the archival material on display will allow us to better understand both Gardner’s aspirations and her astonishing achievements.
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Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces will feature twenty highlights from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s incomparable collection. This once-in-lifetime exhibition will provide visitors with direct access to extraordinary works by artists such as Botticelli, Raphael, and Rembrandt, among others. Placing select group of paintings and drawings in our contemporary exhibition space, seen up close and lit to best advantage, will allow us to reconsider the museum’s rich holdings and to think anew about how works from the Renaissance to the Rococo speak to us today. In addition to the artworks themselves, a selection of archival material will focus on Gardner herself as a collector and will illuminate how she tapped into an international network of artists and scholars to put together such an extraordinary collection. Taken together, both the masterpieces and the archival material on display will allow us to better understand both Gardner’s aspirations and her astonishing achievements.
Artists on show
- Agnolo Bronzino
- Andrea Mantegna
- Anthony van Dyck
- Bartolomé Bermejo
- Francesc Comes
- Francisco de Zurbarán
- François Boucher
- Gentile Bellini
- Giovanni di Paolo
- Hans Holbein the Younger
- Jan Vermeer
- Michelangelo
- Pedro Garcia de Benabarre
- Pesellino
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Piero della Francesca
- Raffaello Sanzio
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Sandro Botticelli
- Simone Martini
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