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This blog is used for an Art and Literature class. We are currently reading The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro. The book is about a struggling art copyist, Claire Roth, getting tangled up in a forgery case. She gets approached by an art gallery owner, Aiden Markel, to reproduce one of Degas' masterpieces, After the Bath. In exchange for the painting, Markel will give Claire her own show in the gallery. This painting was also one of the thirteen paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. When the painting gets delivered to Claire's apartment, she suspects that the "original" painting is a forgery. Throughout the book, she seeks for the truth to help save herself.

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

            The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, also known as Fenway Court, is a museum located in Boston, Massachusetts near the Museum of Fine Arts. Before this became an official museum, this was Isabella Stewart's home. Over a span of three decades, before her house became a museum, Gardner traveled the world and worked with numerous art patrons and advisors to gather an outstanding collection of master and decorative arts. Soon after, in 1903, she finally completed the construction of Fenway Court which showcased the pieces of work that she collected. This museum provided a crucial place where visitors can have easy access and admire important pieces of art. Gardner also included furniture, textiles and objects from different cultures and time periods in her museum.

Link to official Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum website: http://www.gardnermuseum.org/home/

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