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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book The Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings.
Jun 22, 2024 · Bernard Berenson (born June 26, 1865, Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire—died Oct. 6, 1959, Settignano, Italy) was an American art critic, especially of Italian Renaissance art. Reared in Boston, Berenson was educated at Harvard University, from which he was graduated in 1887.
Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950), the Morgan’s pathbreaking inaugural director, attracted considerable attention both in the press and from her many admirers, among them the Italian Renaissance art historian, scholar, and connoisseur Bernard Berenson (1865–1959).
Feb 14, 2014 · Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, a treasure of Italian Renaissance scholarship since 1961, has launched an oral history site on its origins with Bernard Berenson, Class of 1887, and its transition from villa to a center for scholars.
Bernard Berenson was one of the most famous and influential connoisseurs of Italian Renaissance paintings and drawings. Born Bernhard Valvrojenski in Lithuania on 26 June 1865 to Albert (originally Alter) Valvrojenski and Judith (originally Eudice) Mickleshanski (Valvrojenski), he maintained the original spelling of his first name until 1914.
I NEVER KNEW BERNARD BERENSON, but I have sat at his luncheon table, and have had tea in his living room, besides handling his unequalled photographic archive of Italian paintings, using his remarkably diversified library, and admiring and amusing myself with his collection of pictures.
Critic, arbiter of taste, renowned authority on Renaissance painting, and oracle to millionaire art collectors, Bernard Berenson was the most formidable presence in the Anglo-American art world for more than thirty years.
May 23, 2018 · 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 born on June 26, 1865 in the Lithuanian village of Butrimonys, near the larger city of Vilnius.
Oct 22, 2013 · When Gilded Age millionaires wanted to buy Italian Renaissance paintings, the expert whose opinion they sought was Bernard Berenson, with his vast erudition, incredible eye, and uncanny skill...
Berenson’s method was most clearly stated in his 1902 essay (though written in the 1890’s), Rudiments of Connoisseurship. As an historian dedicated to the object (as opposed to documentary art history, iconography, social art history, etc.), he centered the emerging discipline.
