tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217012316587200736.post1212255235225830716..comments2024-03-12T21:24:23.240-04:00Comments on Emily Bryan Romance: A Gift to the WorldEmilyBryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03542349086762747179noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217012316587200736.post-79641106174353833942009-03-17T10:59:00.000-04:002009-03-17T10:59:00.000-04:00Thanks for sharing Isabella's biography with me, C...Thanks for sharing Isabella's biography with me, Carole. I started devouring it last night and read till my eyes fuzzed out.EmilyBryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03542349086762747179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217012316587200736.post-33381861919688772882009-03-17T10:51:00.000-04:002009-03-17T10:51:00.000-04:00Thanks Emily,I am flattered by your swift, accurat...Thanks Emily,<BR/>I am flattered by your swift, accurate and lovely description of one of my heroines. I too would like to be more like Isabella. Sometimes I think the Gardner Museum is not visited because people don't grasp what an accomplishment it is in one woman's life, when women didn't have the freedom or will to do what she did. It is a window to her soul.<BR/>Thanks for the blog,<BR/>CaroleAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04865266961363868270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217012316587200736.post-90733906020249294322009-03-15T19:57:00.000-04:002009-03-15T19:57:00.000-04:00Nynke--The Dutch have blessed us with lots of terr...Nynke--The Dutch have blessed us with lots of terrific artists! There is still one Rembrandt at the Gardner. It's one of his early self-portraits and fortunately it was painted on wood instead of canvas. The thieves couldn't slash it from the frame. <BR/><BR/>Loretta--I hope they catch them some how. Of course, it's always wrong to take something that's not yours, but it seems worse when that something is so grand no one person should own it.EmilyBryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03542349086762747179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217012316587200736.post-41047949118374291882009-03-15T18:12:00.000-04:002009-03-15T18:12:00.000-04:00I remember the robbery and I always wondered if th...I remember the robbery and I always wondered if the paintings whould ever surface again.<BR/><BR/>lorettaLORETTA CANTONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11565717709469489851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217012316587200736.post-23820499616516706932009-03-15T17:51:00.000-04:002009-03-15T17:51:00.000-04:00Hi Emily,what a wonderful museum! I definitely wan...Hi Emily,<BR/><BR/>what a wonderful museum! I definitely want to go there next time I go to Boston. Even without the Rembrandts and Vermeers! their paintings, especially Vermeer's, always make me happy because they're so beautiful, they work miracles with light, and make me proud to be Dutch. And it's such a miracle to be in the same room as something someone made 400 years ago, and to see what they see! It's so horrible when someone comes in and cuts it up - *and* takes it away from people! <BR/><BR/>Isabella sounds like a great person - she reminds me a bit of Artemisia the duchess, really :)Nynkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08810044360681034104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217012316587200736.post-28087423286062098212009-03-14T13:35:00.000-04:002009-03-14T13:35:00.000-04:00All I know is my next heroine needs a liberal dose...All I know is my next heroine needs a liberal dose of Isabella's spunk! She traveled all over the world and we're not just talking Europe. In the 1890's she went to China and snapped photos of the Great Wall for her scrap books.<BR/><BR/>Her husband died before the building that houses her collection was finished, but he encouraged her work. <BR/><BR/>She wrote to a friend that they'd laugh to hear that she hadn't had a new dress in over a year because she was spending every cent she could in creating her museum. (She even cut up one of her gowns and used the fabric on the walls to highlight the area beneath Titian's RAPE OF EUROPA.) <BR/><BR/>She hated the impersonal art institutions of her day and wanted to showcase the works she'd collected in a setting as beautiful as they were. It's as if the entire structure is a single work, a collage of sorts.<BR/><BR/>I can't wait to go back!EmilyBryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03542349086762747179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217012316587200736.post-4177353091123826372009-03-14T13:16:00.000-04:002009-03-14T13:16:00.000-04:00Emily, this is a very interesting story! Dare I h...Emily, this is a very interesting story! Dare I hope it'll be the backdrop to your next best seller? (grins)<BR/><BR/>~Phyllis~Phyllis Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14769290385657892832noreply@blogger.com