Bernard Berenson - The Making of a Connoisseur

Critic, arbiter of taste, renowned authority on Renaissance painting and oracle to millionaire art collectors, Bernard Berenson was the most formidable presence in the art world for more than thirty years. Four decades of his life are unfolded in this compelling book.

List of contents

Preface Acknowledgments A Lithuanian Childhood Dreamer in Minot Street A Harvard Aesthete Literary Debut Cities of a Dream Seedtime of Art Beyond the Alps Disciple of Morelli The Smiths of Friday's Hill The Path to Monte Oliveto Master and Errant Pupil Trial of the Scholar-Aesthete Talent in Harness New Vistas at Home and Abroad Secrets of the Artistic Personality Heretic at the New Gallery The Tactile Imagination Only the Greatest in the World The Critical Gantlet The "Wizard of Quick Wits" A Duel with Vernon Lee A Tangled Web A Man of Affairs "Room for Berenson" A Union of "Minds and Feelings" A Victorian Husband The Study and Criticism of Italian Art The Wars of the Burlington Mission to the New World A New Beginning Selected Bibliography Notes Index

About the author

Ernest Samuels is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English, Emeritus, at Northwestern University and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Summary

Critic, arbiter of taste, renowned authority on Renaissance painting and oracle to millionaire art collectors, Bernard Berenson was the most formidable presence in the art world for more than thirty years. Four decades of his life are unfolded in this compelling book.

Product details

• Authors: Berenson Samuels, Ernest Samuels, Samuels Ernest
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1979
• EAN: 9780674067776
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06777-6
• Weight: 680 g
• Illustrations: 2 line illustrations, 28 halftones
• Series: Harvard Paperbacks; Harvard Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, ART / Business Aspects, Art: Financial Aspects