Isabella Stewart Gardner

Isabella Stewart Gardner builds a place to house her art.

Long before the gallery she built was famously robbed, Isabella Stewart Gardner was shocking 19th-century society with her disregard for convention.

We take for granted the Titians and Botticellis that hang in galleries across the U.S., little aware how and why they were acquired.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.