Bernard Berenson : : The Making of a Legend /

Bernard Berenson : : The Making of a Legend / / Ernest Samuels.

Controversy swirls around Bernard Berenson today as it did in his middle years, before and between two world wars. Who was this man, this supreme connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting? How did he support his elegant estate near Florence, his Villa I Tatti? What exactly were his relations with...

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Samuels, Ernest,
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Samuels, Jayne Newcomer.
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1987
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (680 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • I. The Missionaries’ Return
  • II. A Man of the World
  • III. Throes of the North Italians
  • IV. Pathway to Dwveen
  • V. The “Fourth Gospel”
  • VI. A Home in Exile
  • VII. Matisse and the Highroad of Art
  • VIII. America the Plutocratic
  • IX. The Pursuit of Life Enhancement
  • X. The Red Robe
  • XI. The Ixion Wheel of Business
  • XII. Idyll with Belle da Costa Greene
  • XIII. A Marital Truce
  • ΧIV. “The Flavor of Dust and Ashes”
  • XV. The “Merchants” and the “Expert”
  • ΧVI. Last Season of the Belle Epoque
  • XVII. America Revisited
  • XVIII. The Darkening of Europe
  • XIX. A Time for Writing
  • XX. Paris in Wartime
  • XXI. Venetians Restudied and Leonardo Dethroned
  • XXII. From Art Expert to Military Adviser
  • XXIII. Domestic Crisis
  • XXIV. “The Dragon’s Eggs”
  • XXV. Spoils of War and Art
  • XXVI. An “American Bacchus”
  • XXVII. An Island of Relative Solitude
  • XXVIII. Suspect in the Tromised Land
  • XXX. Germany and the Stelloni d’Italia
  • XXXI. The Case of La Belle Ferronière
  • XXXII. The Archaeology of Art
  • XXXIII. On the Way toTruth
  • XXXIV. The “Two Sposini”
  • XXXV. The End of Profit Sharing
  • XXXVI. Afloat on a Golden Flood
  • XXXVII. “Prince of Art Critics”
  • XXXVIII. A New Disciple
  • XXXIX. The “Book of Revelation”
  • XL. The Role of Art History
  • XLI. Life in “Mussolinia”
  • XLII. The Allendale Nativity
  • XLIII. The Drawings Revisited
  • XLIV. Toward the Abyss
  • XLV. Travels into Self
  • XLVI. The Peace of Le Fontanelle
  • XLVII. Patriarch of Florence
  • XLVIII. At Home in the House of Life
  • XLIΧ. Paradoxical Talmudist
  • L. Master of the Inn
  • LI. Garnering the Past
  • LII. “The Last Aesthete”
  • LIII. Doctor of Letters and Philosophy
  • LIV. Toward a “Humanistic Priesthood”
  • LV. “A Scene from Rembrandt”
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY. NOTES. INDEX
  • Selected bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index

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