From Saints to Celebrities

Isabella Stewart Gardner collected objects of meaning from high to low, from the reliquary of The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin by Fra Angelico to a cigarette butt discarded by Johannes Brahms. Join us for a conversation exploring relic collecting, from sacred to secular, from the Renaissance to the Gilded Age.

Speakers:

Nathaniel Silver, Associate Curator, Gardner Museum
Casey Riley, Assistant Curator, The Boston Athenaeum