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When Gilded Age millionaires wanted to buy Italian Renaissance paintings, the expert whose opinion they sought was Bernard Berenson, with his vast erudition, incredible eye, and uncanny skill at attributing paintings. They visited Berenson at his beautiful Villa I Tatti, in the hills outside Florence, and walked with him through the immense private library—which he would eventually bequeath to Harvard—without ever suspecting that he had grown up in a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family that had struggled to survive in Boston on the wages of the father’s work as a tin peddler. Berenson’s extraordinary self-transformation, financed by the explosion of the Gilded Age art market and his secret partnership with the great art dealer Joseph Duveen, came with painful costs: he hid his origins and felt that he had betrayed his gifts as an interpreter of paintings. Nevertheless his way of seeing, presented in his books, codified in his attributions, and institutionalized in the many important American collections he helped to build, goes on shaping the American understanding of art today.

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 way his family and companions—including his patron Isabella Stewart Gardner, his lover Belle da Costa Greene, and his dear friend Edith Wharton—helped to form his ideas and his legacy. Rachel Cohen explores Berenson’s inner world and exceptional 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.

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• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0300149425
• Publisher: Yale University Press (October 1, 2013)
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• ASIN: B00FOR56TE
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A smooth, intelligent, and sympathetic study of an interesting man of the high world of art. To fund his preferred style of life, Bernard Berenson came to know the wealthy of America and then catered to their insatiable need to acquire great European paintings.

Professor Cohen's condensed book is of the type that will ignite the desire for further reading on the multitude of characters that touched on, or were central to, the life of her subject:a poor Jewish boy from Boston who studied at Harvard, then who, after relocating to Italy, became a famed international expert on paintings from the Renaissance and a cultural sage.

Above all he was a connoisseur. Over the course of a long life and against a backdrop of worry,he enjoyed beautiful vistas, fine art, friends (many of whom were women and beyond mere friends), intelligent conversations, writing, and libraries.

By Christian Schlect
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