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- Title
"Safe from Destruction by Fire".
- Authors
EZE, ANNE-MARIE
- Abstract
An essay is presented which explores the motivations of Isabella Stuart Gardner, the great collector of the golden age of Venetian painting. The author argues that Gardner began to acquire Venetian illuminated manuscripts, which were otherwise largely overlooked by other North American collectors at the time. The effect of the forces that propelled the buying and selling of manuscripts upon the books that passed through the trade is also tackled.
- Subjects
GARDNER, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924; VENETIAN painting; PAINTING collecting; MANUSCRIPTS; BOOK sales &; prices
- Publication
Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 2016, Vol 1, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
2381-5329
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/mns.2016.0013