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Bernard Berenson : the making of a connoisseur

Title
Bernard Berenson : the making of a connoisseur / Ernest Samuels.
Author
Samuels, Ernest, 1903-1996.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1979.

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Description
xvi, 477 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959
  • Berenson, Bernard, (1865-1959)
  • Art critics > United States > Biography
  • Art critics
  • Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
  • Kunsthandel
  • Kunstkenners
  • Art historians > United States > Biography
  • Critique d'art > États-Unis > Biographies
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 435-442.
Contents
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 gauntlet -- 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.
ISBN
  • 0674067754
  • 9780674067752
LCCN
78026748
OCLC
  • ocm04492591
  • 4492591
  • SCSB-9024612
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library