Bernard Berenson: The Making Of A Connoisseur
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This authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable rise of Bernard Berenson, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated art historians and connoisseurs of Italian Renaissance painting. Ernest Samuels traces Berenson's journey from his humble origins in Lithuania and immigrant childhood in Boston to his transformation into the preeminent authority on Old Master attributions, whose judgments shaped the collections of America's wealthiest Gilded Age patrons. With meticulous scholarship, Samuels uncovers the intellectual and social forces that forged Berenson's discerning eye — his years at Harvard, his mentors, his rivalries, and his determined self-reinvention among the salons of Europe. The narrative presents a portrait of an extraordinarily ambitious man whose aesthetic philosophy and personal magnetism made him the indispensable arbiter of the great art market between Europe and America. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is an indispensable work for anyone interested in the history of art collecting, connoisseurship, and the cultural milieu of the Belle Époque.
Author: Ernest Samuels
Format: Paperback
Published: 1979, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — board cover in good condition with minor shelf wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact and sturdy.
This authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable rise of Bernard Berenson, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated art historians and connoisseurs of Italian Renaissance painting. Ernest Samuels traces Berenson's journey from his humble origins in Lithuania and immigrant childhood in Boston to his transformation into the preeminent authority on Old Master attributions, whose judgments shaped the collections of America's wealthiest Gilded Age patrons. With meticulous scholarship, Samuels uncovers the intellectual and social forces that forged Berenson's discerning eye — his years at Harvard, his mentors, his rivalries, and his determined self-reinvention among the salons of Europe. The narrative presents a portrait of an extraordinarily ambitious man whose aesthetic philosophy and personal magnetism made him the indispensable arbiter of the great art market between Europe and America. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is an indispensable work for anyone interested in the history of art collecting, connoisseurship, and the cultural milieu of the Belle Époque.