Born Bernhard Valvrojenski in 1865 to a tin-peddling father in the Pale of Settlement, Bernard Berenson transformed himself into one of the most influential connoisseurs of Italian Renaissance art. An ...

THIS autumn will see the publication of the diary of the last eleven years of Bernard Berenson’s life, between the ages of eighty-two and ninety-three. By that time, however vital and eclectic a man ...

"The core of the present volume consists of the papers presented at the conference 'Bernard Berenson at Fifty,' held at I Tatti from 14 to 16 October 2009." Contents Bernard Berenson and Jean Paul ...

Devotees of the fine arts and even finer acting will hurry to the Metropolitan Museum of Art tonight or on June 27 for a staged reading of Simon Gray’s 2004 play “The Old Masters.” Gray’s opus ...

The art historian and art dealer Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) was the first of an art-world type that’s still with us: the big-time, wheeling-and-dealing broker, operating in an international market ...

In 1888, the year an ambitious young American aesthete named Bernard Berenson arrived in Italy, Italian Renaissance art was virtually unknown in the U.S. By the time of his death in 1959, there were ...

ONE YEAR’S READING FOR FUN (166 pp.)—Bernard Berenson—Knopf ($5). The late Bernard Berenson called World War II a “manquake” and calmly retired to his book-lined storm cellar—the 50,000-volume library ...

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the notself that there is no self left to die. —Bernard Berenson At 94, the great “B.B.” had been failing for more than a year.

MY FIRST recollection of B.B. dates from nearly fifty years ago, when he was in his early forties and I a child of eight. As I drove with my mother up to the little Tuscan wood of aromatic cypress and ...