A weekend or so ago Michael and I trekked out to Boston to visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. It is a beautiful old home a block or so from the MFA. They have a great collection of Renaissance Art, and it was a perfect place to find some art work for my final paper.This was my first time going to the ISG so I wasn't sure what to expect. The museum does have a great collection. The encased courtyard is breath taking, it is a shame you can't walk through it. There are a lot of elements to the place is are very weird and a little intimidating (I heard that Isabella's ghost haunts the closed off fourth floor).
First off the lighting sucked, there are no plaques on most of the art work to identify them, and the gallery attends exhibited a super strand of anal-retentiveness. Other than that it was a really interesting place to see, with some amazing art work. We spent a good three or four hours looking around until I found two paintings of the Madonna and Child I decided to work on. It was worth going to and I would like to go again now that I am more familiar with what to expect.
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