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Isabella Stewart Gardner the astute art collector and artist patron is famous for stipulating that her trove of masterpieces remain exactly where she hung them in her historic Boston museum.
But parts of her singular collection have been on the move recently for a first-of-its-kind exhibition titled Off the Wall, which tells the origin story of the collection itself.
A Painting Worth Following
The museum s professional art handlers gently remove an eye-popping 15th century painting from its place on the wall. It’s Italian master Botticelli’s, The Tragedy of Lucretia. Watching it get lifted up off the wall and then taken down is really one of the more nerve-wracking moments for me, Christina Nielsen admitted as she looked on, as a curator I often have to avert my gaze.