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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.
Traveling the long distance from New York City to Florence, the letters of Belle Greene to Bernard Berenson document one of the art world’s most fascinating relationships.
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.
BERNARD BERENSON. Butrimonys, Vilna, Lithuania, 1865 - Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy, 1959. (Art Historian, Art Critic, and Art Collector) Bernard Berenson was one of the most famous and influential connoisseurs of Italian Renaissance paintings and drawings.
Feb 14, 2014 · In the fall of 1884, a slender teenager dressed in a worn suit walked into Harvard Yard. The transfer student from Boston University was Bernard Berenson, a son of a Boston tin peddler and a future world-famous art historian and connoisseur.
May 23, 2018 · BERENSON, BERNARD (1865–1959), U.S. art historian and art connoisseur. Berenson was born Valvrojenski in the Lithuanian village of Baltramentz, where his father, an ironmonger and grain and lumber merchant, was one of the leaders of the Jewish community.
Berenson was among the first specialists to make extensive use of photographs, and he created a fototeca that remains one of the unique instruments of research at I Tatti, and which formed the basis for BB’s still unsurpassed canonical “Lists.”
Jul 18, 2024 · Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) was a Lithuanian-born, West-End-raised art historian and commercial art dealer specializing in the Italian Renaissance. His knowledge and expert connoisseurship greatly impacted the art world of the 19th and 20th centuries, and his dealings with wealthy Americans bolstered the flow of Old Masters into the country.
Bernard Berenson, who had graduated from Harvard College in 1887, credited his success as a historian and critic of late Medieval and Renaissance art to his strong education in the humanities.
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.
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