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 art. An ...

THIS autumn will see the publication of the diary of the last eleven years of Bernard Berenson’s life, between the ages of eighty-two and ninety-three. By that time, however vital and eclectic a man ...

Devotees of the fine arts and even finer acting will hurry to the Metropolitan Museum of Art tonight or on June 27 for a staged reading of Simon Gray’s 2004 play “The Old Masters.” Gray’s opus ...

Nineteen eighty-eight marked the hundredth anniversary of Bernard Berenson’s first coming into Italy. The event was crucial in Berenson’s biography, but its import goes far beyond this private meaning ...

"The core of the present volume consists of the papers presented at the conference 'Bernard Berenson at Fifty,' held at I Tatti from 14 to 16 October 2009." Contents Bernard Berenson and Jean Paul ...

The art historian and art dealer Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) was the first of an art-world type that’s still with us: the big-time, wheeling-and-dealing broker, operating in an international market ...

The art historian and critic Bernard Berenson at 21 and 71 Credit: Photo: Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti Superficially, it might seem strange to draw a comparison between the contemporary artists ...

In September 1925, the future art historian Kenneth Clark, then 22, met Bernard Berenson, the eminent connoisseur, then 60. Clark was visiting Poggio Gherardo, the Florentine home of Janet Ross, a ...

My Dear BB: The Letters Of Bernard Berenson And Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959 Edited and annotated by Robert Cumming ★★★★★ Collections of letters by people of renown are still a staple of ...

MY FIRST recollection of B.B. dates from nearly fifty years ago, when he was in his early forties and I a child of eight. As I drove with my mother up to the little Tuscan wood of aromatic cypress and ...

In 1888, the year an ambitious young American aesthete named Bernard Berenson arrived in Italy, Italian Renaissance art was virtually unknown in the U.S. By the time of his death in 1959, there were ...