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A sensitive portrait of collector Isabella Stewart Gardner—Boston's millionaire Bohémienne
A biography of Gardner captures her extraordinary life story with empathy
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The garden as autobiography: new book lays bare a history of eccentrics
From a miniature Swiss glacier and raptor-filled aviary to a "pilgrim’s cell" fashioned from the jaws of a whale, how free thinkers expressed their personalities through unique creations
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Famous figures under scrutiny
New thinking about Da Vinci and Michelangelo considers their different approaches and the reception their work received