Chinese
Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness, 1700-1915
Australian
Lacy tree fern, tender perennial
Filippino Lippi
The Meeting of Christ and John the Baptist, about 1495
Andrea Mantegna
The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist and Six Female Saints, about 1497-1500
Southeast Asian
Christmas palm, tender perennial
Indian, Lucknow
Box, late 19th century
E. H. Holton
Mrs. Asquith's Party, 1921
Chinese
Set of Six Doors, mid 19th century
Giotto
The Presentation of the Christ Child in the Temple, about 1320
Collection
Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 7500 paintings, sculptures, furniture, textiles, silver, ceramics, 3000 rare books, and 7000 archival objects-from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America. Explore objects in Isabella's collection below.
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