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This talk will examine the influence of Dante on Isabella Stewart Gardiner’s museum in Boston, and will show how she borrowed aesthetic motifs from Dante’s Paradiso as exemplified in the Italian poet’s ideal of civic virtue.

Linda Docherty is Associate Professor of Art History Emerita at Bowdoin College, where she taught American and nineteenth-century European art. Her research focuses on art and identity, art and spirituality and the relationship between American and European art.

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