Born in 1840, enigmatic socialite Isabella Stewart Gardner built up a personal collection of thousands of artworks during her lifetime.

Gardner's collection grew to include paintings, sculptures, textiles, manuscripts, photographs, artifacts, and letters from all over the world, so she built a mansion in Boston's Back Bay Fens to house it all. The collection is both eclectic (see: a 17th-century silver ostrich from Germany) and world-class, with masterpieces by Botticelli, Raphael, and Matisse, among many others. Gardner moved into the fourth floor when construction finished in 1901; the rest opened to the public as a museum in 1903. But as sensational as the collection is, the Gardner may be most famous for an unsolved 1990 art heist that robbed the museum of priceless artwork, including pieces by Degas and Rembrandt.

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