One of the things on the top of my list for Boston Sightseeing was the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (site of a great art heist you may have heard of.) There seemed to still be a lot of tickets left when I was online but there were quite a few people there. The main floor was not really very enjoyable because of lines and crowds - and I later found that we missed one exhibit I was interested in because it was actually in a tiny room we skipped because of all the people lining up and the room before it was fairly uninteresting. It is quite a place though. I'd say not a great place to study art because it is dark and things are all over the place. And its difficult to really look at something when there is just so much stuff everywhere. I like the building a lot and if I lived here I would get a membership and visit really often during the non-tourist season and just do one room each trip. I wish I had taken a picture of some of the floors with patterns of square and small and diamond shaped bricks.
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| I know not many were there for the lettering.... |
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| Ceiling, I think in the Titian Room |
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| No information was given about all the paintings along the ceiling, although we didn't have headphones to do the audio tour. Like most things, they show up better in the photo than in person because it adjusts for the dark. |
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| Collected things from Mary Queen of Scots because Isabella got interested in her. |
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| Antiphony, large book for choirs, you can only view the dark cover, but online they have scans of all 300+ pages, I would have loved to look through it! water damaged- |
Stamped and dyed leather on wall
While looking for the flower exhibit we went to the
Ming Fay exhibit in the new side which included giant seeds and foods (think three-foot pepper and four-foot wishbone) and a couple of things just for smelling to point out how smells tie to memories -- one was anise which made me think of candy animals because Grandma Layton always used anise flavoring for at least some of them.
Durk went just for me and was very patient. He's all cultured now.
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