Isabella Stewart Gardner Framed Postcard Poetry & Performance this ornament of Medusa with

this ornament of Medusa with her serpentine locks is said to have the power to ward off evil (and will surely not turn you into stone)

A powerful

who shot suns out of the sky to save humanity from a drought

Art by Maira Kalman

and floral enthusiasts

Isabella Stewart Gardner Framed Postcard Poetry & Performance this ornament of Medusa withMrs. Gardner sat for Sargent during his visit to Boston in January 1888. He was paid $3000 for the portrait, which was exhibited to great acclaim at Bostons St. Botolph Club. The work also inspired gossip and legend: someone jokingly titled it Woman: An Enigma, while others believed that the sensuous display of flesh deliberately echoed the scandal recently created by Sargents Madame X. Mrs. Gardner herself said that she rejected eight renderings of