Berenson, Bernard
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Berenson, Bernard (1865–1959). American art historian, critic, and collector. He was born in Lithuania and educated in Boston and at Harvard University (his family emigrated to the USA when he was 10), but he spent most of his long life in Italy, first visiting the country in 1888 and settling there permanently in 1899. He built up a formidable reputation as an authority on Italian
Renaissance painting and was associated with several prominent dealers and collectors, notably Lord
Duveen and
Isabella Stewart Gardner, advising them on purchases. The fortune he earned in the picture trade has caused his impartiality to be questioned, and many of his attributions have been downgraded, but his lists of the work of Renaissance painters formed a basis for further work for many years. His most enduring work of scholarship is
The Drawings of the Florentine Painters (1903; 2nd edn. 1938; 3rd edn.—in Italian—1961). He amassed a huge library of books and photographs and an impressive art collection at his villa, I Tatti, at Settignano, near Florence, which he left to Harvard University. In 1961 it opened as the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Dapper and polylingual, Berenson often played host to visiting art historians and intellectuals at I Tatti and was a renowned conversationalist, diarist, and bon viveur. See also
Tactile Values.
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The Authentic Bernard Berenson
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/10/1987; ; 700+ words
; BERNARD BERENSON The Making of a Legend By Ernest Samuels...pp. $25 WITH THE PUBLICATION of Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend, Ernest...his long lifetime (1865-1959) Bernard Berenson won an immense, worldwide reputation...
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Bernard Berenson and the Twentieth Century.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...history of Renaissance art in Italy, Bernard Berenson's reputation has had more than...from the critical fray attending Berenson's legacy, and from his spirited...moment of his thought. In analyzing Berenson's changing critical outlook...
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Dear B.B.: Hugh Trevor-Roper's entertaining letters to Bernard Berenson reveal a great deal about attitudes to art history in post-war Oxford, and demonstrate the significance of Trevor-Roper's own approach to the subject.(Letters from Oxford to Bernard Berenson Hugh Trevor-Roper)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Letters from Oxford to Bernard Berenson Hugh Trevor-Roper Edited by Richard Davenport...from Christ Church, Oxford, on 23 March 1952 to Bernard Berenson. Their correspondence began on 29 August 1947...
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The History Correspondent.(Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson, edited by Richard Davenport...cold figure of these letters to Bernard Berenson. Certainly I recognise Trevor...introduction to the art historian Bernard Berenson, who had become vastly wealthy...
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Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2007; 546 words
; Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson. Richard Davenport-Hines, editor. Weidenfeld...Fellow) of Christ Church met the aged art critic, Bernard Berenson and continued to Berenson's death in 1959. The...
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Just don't mention the diaries Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson ed Richard Davenport-Hines WEIDENFELD pounds 20 pounds 18 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 8/6/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...just two of the titles Trevor-Roper mentions to Berenson in the course of this correspondence, which he...first met the famous art connoisseur and critic Bernard Berenson in 1947. Berenson, at 82, was immured at I Tatti, the villa outside...
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Antonello's lost 'St Augustine' rediscovered: Joanne Wright reveals a major discovery: an altarpiece panel by Antonello da Messina, depicting St Augustine. Now in a private collection, it was formerly known only from a photograph owned by Bernard Berenson.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Amongst Berenson's 'homeless paintings' published...of how long it had been unlocated when Berenson recorded it. Neither is there any information...inscriptions, one of which (in Mary Berenson's hand) records that the work had...
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THE SELF-MADE MR. BERENSON
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/12/1987; ; 700+ words
; BERNARD BERENSON The Making of a Legend, By Ernest...25. Illustrated. ARTFUL PARTNERS Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen, By Colin Simpson...pointer without a nose," declared Bernard Berenson. Pointers fetch, however, and the...
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Terror In America: Obituary: Berry Berenson
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/14/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...model and occasional actress Berry Berenson was a member of a notable European...great-uncle the art historian Bernard Berenson. In 1973 she startled the fashion...illness in 1992. Born Berinthia Berenson in New York in 1948, she was the...
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BERENSON LOST ON FLIGHT 11.(Berry Berenson, photographer and actress)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: WWD; 9/13/2001; 700+ words
; NEW YORK -- Berry Berenson, 53, a photographer and actress...sister of model and actress Marisa Berenson, daughter of Marchesa Gogo Cacciapoti...grand-niece of the art historian Bernard Berenson, Berry Berenson appeared in such...
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Bernard Berenson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Bernard Berenson Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) was the world's fore-most expert on Italian Renaissance art. His expertise resulted in the acquisition of some superb works of art for American collectors and dealers. Bernard Berenson was...
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Berenson, Bernard
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Berenson, Bernard (1865–1959). American art historian, critic, and collector...University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Dapper and polylingual, Berenson often played host to visiting art historians and intellectuals at I...
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attribution
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...disagree and not infrequently change their minds ( Bernard Berenson , the most famous of all connoisseurs, often changed...when the certificate of authenticity of a man such as Berenson could add several noughts to the price of a painting...
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Kenneth M. Clark
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...fulfill another childhood ambition: to assist art critic Bernard Berenson in the revision of his Florentine Drawings. Clark spent two years in Italy working for Berenson, during which time he married Jane Martin, an Oxford...
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Kress, Samuel H.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...1939 (together with subsequent gifts) formed one of the cornerstones of the collection. Kress was a friend of Bernard Berenson and his main field of interest was Italian Renaissance painting.
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