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 Best time to travel: Year round Best gateway city: Boston, Massachusetts Experience four centuries of art, architecture and history in Boston. Savor art masterpieces at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, Harvard Art Museums, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. This trip is timed to catch the special exhibition, “Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice,” organized by the MFA and the Louvre and culminates in a visit to the newest museum in Boston, perched at the waterfront to welcome the art of the twenty-first century. Off the beaten path gems (including the sculpture garden at the DeCordova Museum and the "treasure box" of Bauhaus design created by Walter Gropius for his own home) and "behind-the-scenes" tours augment the experience. |
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Day 1 Overnight in Boston Dinner included Arrive at Boston’s Logan Airport and transfer to our hotel. Settle in for four nights. Meet for a brief trip orientation before enjoying a welcome dinner. |
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Day 2 Overnight in Boston Breakfast and lunch included After breakfast, visit the "Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. This is the “first major exhibition dedicated to the artistic rivalry of the three greatest Venetian painters of the 16th century.” Groupings of two to four paintings are hung side by side, demonstrating the high degree of influence these three artists had on each other’s work. After lunch, tour the permanent collection of the MFA. The American art, English silver, European painting, Asian and Egyptian art is particularly impressive. If you wish, you can attend a concert that is part of the Keller Jazz Series at the New England Conservatory of Music this evening . |
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Day 3 Overnight in Boston Breakfast and gourmet boxed dinner included This morning after breakfast, savor a private tour of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum before it opens to the general public. Explore the rooms of the 16th century Venetian-inspired villa with works by Giotto, Botticelli, Ucello, Rembrandt, Sargent and Manet. Meet the Director of Visitor Learning and gain behind-the-scenes insights into the programs of the Gardner Museum. Travel off the beaten path to the impressive sculpture gardens of the DeCordova Museum followed by a gourmet boxed dinner and exclusive private tour of the Walter Gropius house. Founder of the German design school known as the Bauhaus, Gropius designed this gem of domestic architecture in 1937 when he came to teach at Harvard. With all the family possessions still in place, including an important collection of furniture designed by Marcel Breuer, the house has an immediacy rarely found in house museums. Return to Boston in time for an optional evening performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall. This evening's program features the works of Sibelius, Grieg, Copland and Bartok. |
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Day 4 Overnight in Boston Breakfast included Travel by private coach to the northeast coast and tour the extensive collections of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. Founded in 1799, this is the “oldest continuously operating museum in the United States.” Masterworks of 18th and 19th century American painting and decorative arts are exhibited with thousands of artifacts imported from China, Japan and Korea. Compare and contrast works made for local use with those intended for export, and marvel at an entire Qing dynasty (1644-1911) house from southeastern China, the only example of Chinese domestic architecture on display in the United States. After seeing the museum’s portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne, walk to the 1750’s house where Hawthorne was born and see the 1668 house that inspired the author’s book, The House of the Seven Gables. Return to Boston, and go directly to the Harvard Art Museum’s special exhibition “Re-View” at the Sackler Museum. This is the first time works from all three of Harvard’s museums will be exhibited simultaneously. The exhibition includes over 600 objects of Western art from antiquity to the turn of the 20th century, Islamic and Asian art, and European and American art from 1900 to the present. This afternoon, continue your immersion in art with a sampling of Boston’s galleries, or immerse yourself in American history by walking the Freedom Trail. On your own this evening, you may choose to attend an optional performance of “Trojan Barbie” at the American Repetory Theatre, Harvard University. |
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Day 5 Breakfast and lunch included On the Boston waterfront, the Institute of Contemporary Art is the newest icon of the city’s art world. Tour its current exhibition and gain a behind the scenes view of its innovative teen education program. After lunch at Wolfgang Puck’s Water Cafe, return to the ICA galleries, or, time permitting, enjoy nearby artist studios, the John F. Kennedy Library, or the Boston Children’s Museum. Afternoon group transfer to Boston’s Logan airport. |
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