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Juliette Kayyem

Gardner’s narrative of resiliency

By Juliette Kayyem

 |  Globe Columnist  

  March 19, 2012

The Italian architect Renzo Piano, who designed the new building for Boston’s Isabella Gardner Museum, constructs for beauty, flow, and light. The museum’s addition is intended to preserve Gardner’s original home and her desire for an intimate visual experience, while providing more space. It is a way for an increasingly popular museum to update for the future. It isalso a way for the museum to get over the past.

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