Is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston’s most brilliant location? According to Lydia Figes, in a new feature for Elephant, it’s pretty hard to beat. The architecturally magnificent museum comprises “three floors of galleries, centred around a scenic interior courtyard [captured here by Sean Dungan] with a glass and steel roof and Italianate widows that transport you to another time and place”, she writes. It opened to the public in 1903 and boasts “a diverse collection of art spanning many centuries and continents, including works by Michelangelo, Titian, Matisse and Degas”. It was also subject to one of the biggest art heists in history. Click here to read on.
