Palazzi Barbaro, Venice
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The Palazzi Barbaro—also known as Palazzo Barbaro, Ca' Barbaro, and Palazzo Barbaro-Curtis—are a pair of adjoining palaces, in the San Marco district of Venice, northern Italy. They were formerly one
The Palazzo Barbaro a San Vidal
South facade of the palace located on the side of the Canal Grande.
Ludwig Passini, watercolour c. 1855, The Salone of the Palazzo Barbaro
Isabella Stewart Gardner
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Isabella Stewart Gardner was an American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Palazzi Barbaro, Venice
…Curtis, Henry James, Whistler, Robert Browning and Claude Monet. Other members of the "Barbaro Circle" included Bernard Berenson, William Merritt Chase, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Edith Wharton, and Charles Eliot Norton. Henry James finished The Aspern Papers at a desk that is still housed in the palace today. James considered…
Gardner in 1888
Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888 painting by John Singer Sargent
Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice (1894), by Anders Zorn (Gardner Museum)
Mrs. Gardner in White (1922), by Sargent