Inside the Collection Blog

The Gardner’s home for stories about its collection (including the plants!), Isabella and her circle, and how the Museum inspires artists today.

Large mophead Hydrangea blooms in mixed colors of pink, purple, and blue.

Behind the Show: Hydrangeas

The beauty of Hydrangeas is well known. Yet, behind the blossom’s showy facade hide humble flowers.
 

A high relief marble sculpture framed on the rectangular side panel of a sarcophagus depicting maenads and satyrs interacting in various states of undress underneath grape vines and small cupids intertwining between their legs.

A Boston Bacchanal

 Happy National Wine & Cheese Day! Read on to explore how the god of wine is preserved in Isabella’s collection.
 

A view from the ground level of the courtyard

Tracing the Tree Fern

A relic of the prehistoric forest catches the light of Isabella’s Courtyard garden.