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Sandro Botticelli
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum holds 1 Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces in the Paintale collection, including works by Sandro Botticelli. Each painting page unpacks the symbolism, technique, and provenance of the work — turning a gallery visit, or a search for a single canvas, into a deeper encounter with the period.
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Famous paintings at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
About the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Renaissance and Baroque collection
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s holdings of Renaissance and Baroque painting in Boston sit among the most significant surviving collections of pre-modern European art. The works in this group — 1 paintings — span the themes of daily life and the hands of artists from Sandro Botticelli.
If you’re planning a visit, use this page as a starting list of the must-see paintings. If you’re researching from a desk, each painting page goes deeper than a museum label: the patron, the symbolism a 17th-century viewer would have recognised, the technique under the surface, and where the painting fits in Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s longer history.