Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner Mariner Books
The name may instantly conjure headlines about the brazen unsolved 1990 theft of 13 works of art—including paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Manet—from her eponymous Boston museum, but Isabella Stewart Gardner deserves to be remembered for her studied collecting, curator's eye, and entrepreneur's determination to build a palazzo to showcase her treasures in perpetuity.
In this thoroughly researched biography, author Natalie Dykstra depicts a woman raised within the strictures of
