Chasing Beauty: An Illustrated Author Talk
Chasing Beauty: An Illustrated Author Talk
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Goodwin Forum, Main Library
Join us for an illustrated author talk Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra.
From author's website - Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture. An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty illuminates the fascinating ways the museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of memoir, dazzling and haunting, created with objects instead of words and displayed per Isabella’s wishes in the exact placements she initially curated.
From award-winning author Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty is the story of the complex and singular woman behind one of the most fascinating museums in the nation and the world—a tale of beauty and loss, grit and American self-invention.
This is a Concord Festival of Authors event.
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