BOSTON’S QUEEN ISABELLA

AND

HER DAZZLING PALACE MUSEUM

by Suzanne L. Epstein, Ph.D.

Boston’s Queen Isabella And Her Dazzling Palace Museum is the title of a color-slide illustrated lecture on Boston's captivating and legendary queen of the arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and the impressive Venetian palace that she built between 1899 and 1902.

Intended to serve both as her residence and as a museum in which to display her priceless artistic treasures, this spendid palace, which is now known as The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, has delighted millions of visitors ever since its doors were first opened to the public in 1903.

Among the museum's major attractions are its extraordinary Old Master paintings.

In the lecture, the distinctive characteristics of many of these artistic masterpieces will be discussed - as will many of the exciting adventures enjoyed by the unconventional Mrs. Jack Gardner during the creation of her magnificent museum.

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