Search results
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).
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.
Nov 21, 2013 · Nicky Mariano, the person Berenson felt closest to and loved most, wrote with affecting candor and devotion her own hagiographic memoir of him—Forty Years with Berenson (1966)—which contains much invaluable material not only about his private and public life but also about his thoughts and feelings.
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.
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.
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.”
People also ask
Who was Bernard Berenson?
Who is Alex Berenson?
Who is Dr. Mark Berenson?
Why did Berenson become Gardner's protégé?
What does Berenson mean by “decoration”?
Did Berenson reread William James?
May 29, 2014 · An aspiring scholar, Berenson wrote a series of books about Italian painting that solidified connoisseurship as a profession and introduced Americans to the distinct styles of the great masters....
