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  1. 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.

  2. Jul 27, 2016 · We resume our brief history of art criticism to talk about one of the most important scholars of the past: Bernard Berenson, born Bernhard Valvrojenski (Butremanz, 1865 Florence, 1959).

  3. Nov 21, 2013 · From very early on, Berenson had a vision of what he wanted his home and library to become after his death, and although that vision was conceived in a quite different world (he wanted fellowships to last for six or eight years), the essence of it has been sustained.

  4. When the great Jewish-American art expert Bernard Berenson died in 1959, he had acquired the status of a sort of sage. He was the relic of a prewar culture that had vanished.

  5. 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.”

  6. Oct 1, 2013 · Who was this man, this supreme connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting? How did he support his elegant estate near Florence, his Villa I Tatti? What exactly were his relations with the art dealer Joseph Duveen? What part did his wife, Mary, play in his scholarly work and professional career?

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  8. In Rome there were the endeavors of Professor Adolfo Venturi, a senior expert in the field, in Florence Mr. Berenson possessed his splendid, unique facilities for research, and in Germany there was the scholar Bode, and they all competed amongst themselves for new breakthroughs.

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