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Critic’s Notebook

New look rewrites museum founder’s vision for her guests

By Sebastian Smee

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 21, 2010

She was strong-willed, independent, and forward-thinking. We all know that. But it’s easy to forget that, by and large, Isabella Stewart Gardner had a hostile relationship with modernity.

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