TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dykstra,Natalie
TI  - Chasing beauty: the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner 
SN  - 9781328515759
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Mariner Books
KW  - Gardner, Isabella Stewart,
KW  - Art
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women art collectors
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-478) and index; Prologue: Notes on a museum -- Part 1: Becoming belle. New York girl -- 'A far-famed city' -- Mr. and Mrs. Jack -- 'Remaining dear ones' -- Part II: Around the world. A return -- 'Mrs. Gardner's album' -- 'Zodiacal light' -- 'Millionaire bohemienne' -- The cosmopolitan -- Part III: Motion and light. The way of the traveler -- 'A whirlwind of suggestion' -- 'The fiddling place' -- Love and power -- Seeing wonder -- Part IV: Fancy things and ordinary objects. 'Dazzling' -- In the middle of things -- The concert -- To remake the world -- 'The age of Mrs. Jack' -- A poem -- 'List of things for the museum' -- 'I always knew where to find him' -- Part V: One-woman museum. Fenway court -- God is in the details -- Unfathomable heart -- 'Lonesome cloud' -- 'The whole interesting world of Paris' -- 'Undying beauty and light'  -- Part VI: A dream of youth. Seeing and hearing modernism -- The dancer -- 'Blood and thunder' -- 'Very much alive' -- Spring -- Epilogue: Lacrimae rerum, or the tears of things -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- List of illustrations -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index
N2  - Chronicles the life of the creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art; includes archival photos of her world, museum and the art she collected
ER  -