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  1. 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).

  2. Oct 1, 2013 · Controversy swirls around Bernard Berenson today as it did in his middle years, before and between two world wars. Who was this man, this supreme connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting? How did he support his elegant estate near Florence, his Villa I Tatti?

  3. 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.

  4. May 29, 2014 · Born Bernhard Valvrojenski in 1865 to a tin-peddling father in the Pale of Settlement, Bernard Berenson transformed himself into one of the most influential connoisseurs of Italian Renaissance...

  5. Nov 21, 2013 · Pope-Hennessy’s nine reviews of books by and about Berenson in this volume comprise one of the most thorough treatments we have of Berenson’s achievement. Compare, for example, this passage: “How little I myself really need, when people leave me alone, with the intellectual powers at work serenely.

  6. Mr. Berenson’s Values” is a thoroughly negative obituary. Schapiro criticized Berenson for rejecting his Jewish identity, but thought it showed through in character traits such as his “Talmudic” fondness for working over the •ne points of a˙ribution. He beli˙led claims that Berenson discovered Paul Cézanne and established the ...

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  8. Berenson made the confession (in Sketch for a Self-Portrait) in 1949: “I have wondered ever since psychoanalysis has been the fashion whether after a certain age, say, somewhere between 50 and 60, more people were not concerned with constipation rather than sex.”

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