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9 unusual facts about Bernard Berenson


Ernest Gambier-Parry

The visitors included Professor Charles John Holmes, director of the National Gallery; Sir Claude Phillips, curator of the Wallace Collection; Roger Eliot Fry; Bernard Berenson; Dr. Raymond van Marle, author of The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, William George Constable of the National Gallery, and historian Welbore St. Clair Baddeley.

Frick Fine Arts Building

Miss Frick acquired the entire collection, however, after Lochoff's death, with the help of art critic Bernard Berenson.

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi

The attribution of his works has been dubious for centuries, until his style and career was defined by the American art historian Bernard Berenson in the 1960s.

Hannah Whitall Smith

They eventually divorced, and Mary then married the critic Bernard Berenson.

Isabella Stewart Gardner

Nearly 70 works of art in her collection were acquired with the help of dealer Bernard Berenson.

Matthew d'Ancona

The same newspaper reported in late October 2009 that d'Ancona was set to become a Hollywood scriptwriter for a film about the art historian Bernard Berenson.

Robert Pearsall Smith

In 1888, the Smith family moved to England when their daughter Mary married an Irish barrister, Frank Costelloe; she later married Bernard Berenson.

Settignano

Near Settignano are the Villa Gamberaia, a 14th-century villa famous for its 18th-century terraced garden, and secluded Villa I Tatti, the villa of Bernard Berenson, now a center of art history studies run by Harvard University.

Stefano di Giovanni

Bernard Berenson bequeathed many of Sassetta's painting from his Florence Villa to Harvard University, in what became the Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence.


Berry Berenson

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a second cousin, once removed, of art expert Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) and his sister Senda Berenson (1868–1954), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Giovanni Bastianini

Bastianini's tin-glazed terracotta Portrait of a Lady in the Della Robbia technique, authenticated by Bernard Berenson as a "15th century Della Robbia bust of Marietta Strozzi" found its way through Joseph Duveen to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.


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