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  • Saturday, November 21, 1:30 pm – American Rural Cemeteries: Interpreted through the Lens

    The second of the Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Landscape Visions Lecture Series will take place Saturday, November 21, in the Tapestry Room of the Museum, beginning at 1:30 pm.  Alan Ward, landscape architect and principal, Sasaki Associates, will present American Rural Cemeteries: Interpreted Through the Lens. Boston has two iconic garden cemeteries: Mount Auburn and Forest Hills. The Rural Cemetery Movement in America began with the founding of Mount Auburn Cemetery in 1831, and spread from there across the country. Often the first designed public landscapes in American communities, rural cemeteries represent major shifts in cemetery landscape concept and form, and continue to resonate with the modern sensibilities they helped shape. Tickets: $15 General Public; $12 Seniors; $5 Members; FREE for Students.  To purchase tickets, log on to www.gardnermuseum.org, or call 617-566-1401. Image: Halcyon Lake in spring, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo by Alan Ward.The Landscape Visions Lecture Series is made possible by a bequest from Jeanne Muller Ryan

    Mt Auburn Cemetery Alan Ward lecture

  • Saturday, October 24, 1:30 pm – Living in Paradise: Heian Paradise Gardens

    We all live in two worlds: the natural and the symbolic. Our expectations, memories, and the reality of death play a significant role in our lives. There is a rich landscape tradition that evokes many natural and symbolic responses to our ephemeral existence, the afterlife, burial customs, and memorialization. In five programs from October 2009 through March 2010, a series entitled “The Landscape of Eternity” explores some of the ideas and expressions of these landscapes of memory. The Landscape Visions Lecture Series is made possible by a bequest from Jeanne Muller Ryan.  The first program, on October 24, in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will be given by garden designer and historian Marc Peter Keane.

    In Heian Japan, Amida Buddha’s Western Paradise was recreated in elaborate estate and temple gardens. Within this symbolic landscape, the image of Amida Buddha was enshrined in a hall set on the shore of a pond. Marc Peter Keane explores several of these gardens and their role as a paradise on earth. Tickets: $15 General Public; $12 Seniors; $5 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Members; FREE for Students.  Tickets may be purchased on line at www.gardnermuseum.org, or by calling 617-566-1401. Image: Scenes from the Tale of Genji (detail), 1677; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    Genji screen detail - Landscape Visions Lecture