Virtual Reading Room

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Step inside the Gardner Museum’s virtual reading room and discover over 100 years’ scholarship on the Museum’s collection produced by the Museum—made free and accessible online.

Virtual Reading Room

Inventing Asia (2014)

Marks of Identity (2012)

Furnishing a Museum (2011)

Artists at Court: Image-Making and Identity, 1300–1550 (2004)

American Victorians and Virgin Nature (2002)

Rethinking Rembrandt (2002)

The Word Made Image (1998)

Cultural Leadership in America: Art Matronage and Patronage (1997)

East Meets West: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Okakura Kakuzo (1993)

The Best of the Decorative Arts (1992)

Imaging the Self in Renaissance Italy (1992)

Introducing the World of Textiles (1992)

Exploring Treasures: Italian Renaissance, Drawings, Medals, and Books (1991)

The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner (1987)

The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner

Textiles: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (1986)

Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (1977)

Oriental and Islamic Art: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (1975)

European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (1974)

Fenway Court Journals, 1970–1994

Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (1968)

General Catalogue (1935)

A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings (1922)

A Choice of Books (1906)

Annual Reports