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050 00 $aN7483.B47$bC64 2013
082 00 $a709.2$aB$223
084 $aBIO018000$aBIO002000$aART015080$2bisacsh
100 1 $aCohen, Rachel,$d1973-
245 10 $aBernard Berenson :$ba life in the picture trade /$cRachel Cohen.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $aviii, 328 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aJewish lives
520 $a"Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed himself into the world's most renowned expert on Italian Renaissance paintings, the owner of a beautiful villa and an immense private library in the hills outside Florence. The explosion of the Gilded Age art market and Berenson's work for dealer Joseph Duveen supported a luxurious life, but it came with painful costs: Berenson hid his origins and, though his attributions remain foundational, felt that he had betrayed his gifts as a critic and interpreter of paintings. This finely drawn portrait of Berenson, the first biography devoted to him in a quarter century, draws on new archival materials that bring out the significance of his secret business dealings and the central importance of several women in his life and work: his sister Senda Berenson; his wife Mary Berenson; his patron Isabella Stewart Gardner; his lover Belle da Costa Greene; his dear friend Edith Wharton, and the companion of his last forty years, Nicky Mariano. Rachel Cohen explores Berenson's inner world and extraordinary visual capacity while also illuminating the historical forces--new capital, the developing art market, persistent anti-Semitism, and the two world wars--that profoundly affected his life"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-314) and index.
600 10 $aBerenson, Bernard,$d1865-1959.
650 0 $aArt historians$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / History / Renaissance.$2bisacsh