Diana Seave Greenwald

Reading the Art World · Oct 24, 2023 · 45m

For the 21st episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Diana Seave Greenwald, whose latest book, "Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life," was co-written with curator Nathaniel Silver, published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and distributed by Princeton University Press.

Isabella Stewart Gardner, who lived from 1840 to 1924, assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures and eras — and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to share these exquisite treasures with the world. But her life and work remains shrouded in myth. Separating fiction…