Looking At Pictures With Bernard Berenson
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Looking At Pictures With Bernard Berenson
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Author : Bernard Berenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Looking At Pictures With Bernard Berenson written by Bernard Berenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Art appreciation categories.
Looking At Pictures With Bernard Berenson
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Author : Bernard Berenson
language : en
Publisher: New York : Abrams
Release Date : 1974
Looking At Pictures With Bernard Berenson written by Bernard Berenson and has been published by New York : Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Art appreciation categories.
Bernard Berenson
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Author : Rachel Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Bernard Berenson written by Rachel Cohen and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed himself into the world's most renowned expert on Italian Renaissance paintings, the owner of a beautiful villa and an immense private library in the hills outside Florence. The explosion of the Gilded Age art market and Berenson's work for dealer Joseph Duveen supported a luxurious life, but it came with painful costs: Berenson hid his origins and, though his attributions remain foundational, felt that he had betrayed his gifts as a critic and interpreter of paintings. This finely drawn portrait of Berenson, the first biography devoted to him in a quarter century, draws on new archival materials that bring out the significance of his secret business dealings and the central importance of several women in his life and work: his sister Senda Berenson; his wife Mary Berenson; his patron Isabella Stewart Gardner; his lover Belle da Costa Greene; his dear friend Edith Wharton, and the companion of his last forty years, Nicky Mariano. Rachel Cohen explores Berenson's inner world and extraordinary visual capacity while also illuminating the historical forces-new capital, the developing art market, persistent anti-Semitism, and the two world wars-that profoundly affected his life"--
Bernard Berenson The Making Of A Legend
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Author : Ernest Samuels
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1987
Bernard Berenson The Making Of A Legend written by Ernest Samuels and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Art critics categories.
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? 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? The answers are to be found in the day-to-day record of his life as he lived it--as reported at first hand in his and Mary's letters and diaries and reflected in the countless personal and business letters they received. His is one of the most fully documented lives of this century. Ernest Samuels, having spent twenty years studying the thousands of letters and other manuscripts, presents his story in absorbing detail. Berenson helped Isabella Stewart Gardner build her great collection and performed similar though lesser services for other wealthy Americans. It was merely an avocation and a useful source of income; his vocation was scholarship. But after 1904, when the book opens, his expertise was in ever-greater demand: a purchaser's only assurance of the authorship of an Italian painting was the opinion of an expert, and in this field Berenson was pre-eminent. Increasingly he was drawn into the lucrative world of the art dealers; inevitably Joseph Duveen found it essential to enlist his services, at first ad hoc, then by contractual agreement. Samuels charts the course of Berenson's long association with Duveen Brothers, detailing the financial arrangements, the humdrum chores and major contested attributions, the periodic clashes between the stubborn scholar and the arrogant entrepreneur. The portrayal of Berenson's relationship with Mary is especially intriguing: a union of opposites in all but brains and wit, bonded--despite love affairs, jealousies, recriminations--no longer by passion but by shared concerns. Impinging on their lives are those of a huge circle of friends and acquaintances in America and the beau monde of Europe. Both as biography and as a chapter of social and cultural history, it is a compelling book.
Seeing And Knowing
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Author : Bernard Berenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Seeing And Knowing written by Bernard Berenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Aesthetics categories.
Being Bernard Berenson
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Author : Meryle Secrest
language : en
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Release Date : 1979
Being Bernard Berenson written by Meryle Secrest and has been published by Holt McDougal this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Italian Pictures Of The Renaissance
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Author : Bernard Berenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Italian Pictures Of The Renaissance written by Bernard Berenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
The Italian Painters Of The Renaissance
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Author : Bernard Berenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Italian Painters Of The Renaissance written by Bernard Berenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Art, Italian categories.
Bernard Berenson
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Author : Rachel Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-22
Bernard Berenson written by Rachel Cohen and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
" Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed himself into the world's most renowned expert on Italian Renaissance paintings, the owner of a beautiful villa and an immense private library in the hills outside Florence. The explosion of the Gilded Age art market and Berenson's work for dealer Joseph Duveen supported a luxurious life, but it came with painful costs: Berenson hid his origins and, though his attributions remain foundational, felt that he had betrayed his gifts as a critic and interpreter of paintings. This finely drawn portrait of Berenson, the first biography devoted to him in a quarter century, draws on new archival materials that bring out the significance of his secret business dealings and the central importance of several women in his life and work: his sister Senda Berenson; his wife Mary Berenson; his patron Isabella Stewart Gardner; his lover Belle da Costa Greene; his dear friend Edith Wharton, and the companion of his last forty years, Nicky Mariano. Rachel Cohen explores Berenson's inner world and extraordinary visual capacity while also illuminating the historical forces-new capital, the developing art market, persistent anti-Semitism, and the two world wars-that profoundly affected his life"--
Italian Pictures Of The Renaissance
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Author : Bernard Berenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Italian Pictures Of The Renaissance written by Bernard Berenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.