Download or read book The Art of Scandal written by Douglass Shand-Tucci and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The unauthorized story of the grandest of Boston's grand dames . . ". ("Boston Globe"), this biography is the first to portray the extraordinary life and times of Isabella Stewart Gardner, muse and mentor to musicians, painters, writers, and scholars such as Henry James, John Singer Sargent, and T.S. Eliot. 4-page color insert. 47 illustrations.