Bernard Berenson was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance.
14 Facts About Bernard Berenson
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Bernard Berenson's book The Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success.
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Bernard Berenson graduated from Harvard and married Mary Smith, who became a notable art historian in her own right.
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Bernard Berenson was involved in a long relationship with Belle da Costa Greene.
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Marisa Bernard Berenson, an actress, is a distant cousin of Bernard Berenson's through Louis Kossivitsky.
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Early in his career, Bernard Berenson developed his own unique method of connoisseurship by combining the comparative examination techniques of Giovanni Morelli with the aesthetic idea put forth by John Addington Symonds that something of an artist's personality could be detected through his works of art.
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In 1897, Bernard Berenson added another work to his series of guides, publishing The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
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Bernard Berenson published two volumes of journals, "Rumor and Reflection" and "Sunset and Twilight".
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Bernard Berenson is the author of Aesthetics and History and Sketch for a Self-portrait.
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Bernard Berenson had willed it to Harvard well before his death, to the bitter regret of his wife, Mary.
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Bernard Berenson was quiet and deliberating by nature, which sometimes caused friction between him and the boisterous Duveen.
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In 1923, Bernard Berenson was called to give expert witness in a famous case brought by a Mrs Andree Hahn of Kansas City against Duveen.
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Bernard Berenson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958.
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The Bernard Berenson Library has grown since Bernard Berenson gifted his extensive collection of books and photographs to Harvard and now holds an archive of around 250,000 photographic prints and other related materials.