Return from the Lido Eyeglass Case Museum Publications Men to Avoid in Art

Men to Avoid in Art and Life pairs classical fine art with modern captions that epitomize the spirit of mansplaining

The majority of Isabella's pearls and rubies were purchased in Paris

and lyrical

Edited by Francesca Cappelleti and Patrizia Cavazzini

Return from the Lido Eyeglass Case Museum Publications Men to Avoid in ArtRalph Curtis was the son of Daniel and Arianna Curtis, Bostonians who moved permanently to Venice in the late 1870s. After graduating from Harvard (where he was one of the founders of the Lampoon), Curtis studied in Paris at the studio of Carolus Duran. There he met John Singer Sargent, a distant relative, who became a good friend and sometime painting companion. Curtis met Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1884, when the Gardners spent five weeks in