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...ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS. The scene fairly breathes piety and tranquillity. Indeed, the painting is one of the most popular masterpieces owned by Washington's National Gallery. Yet the question of who did it is surrounded by acrimony. Art Dealer Joseph Duveen and Critic Bernard Berenson broke off their friendship after an argument over whether it is by Giorgione or by his protégé, Titian. The scarcity of Giorgione's work compounds the problem. He died in his early 30s, and left behind only six or seven paintings. Thus, when Duveen bought The Adoration, he preferred...
...expert, August Mayer, who identified it as a genuine Giorgione. The reddish tints, a peculiar softness, the rendering of the grass and small figures in the middle ground, Mayer declared, were all typical of the master's hand. With that, Samuel H. Kress bought the painting. Was Berenson wrong? Perhaps. In later years, even he grudgingly admitted that the painting had been done "in part" by Giorgione. But he refused to yield on his main point that "it was probably finished by Titian...
...save people from capture, Wolf falsified travel papers, appealed to the German ambassador over the heads of the SS and the Gestapo. He even met the great art expert Bernard Berenson, a Jew and a U.S. citizen, at the villa where friends hid the old man for 13 months. For keeping that one secret alone, Wolf could have wound up in a concentration camp. But he went much further. He collaborated with the Florentines in hiding paintings and sculpture, and worked desperately through the church and the German ambassador to keep the city from becoming a military objective, although...
Jeweled Eggs. For all his quirks, Henry had a remarkable eye. Without relying on professional advice, except occasionally from Bernard Berenson, he rambled all over Europe, picking up Italian primitives, Byzantine silver, Renaissance bronzes and Persian ceramics. He sailed into St. Petersburg on his yacht to buy Faberge jeweled eggs...
Critic Bernard Berenson pored over them by the hour, Matisse and Bonnard learned lessons in color and com position from them, and as early as 1678, Oxford's Bodleian Library cheerfully paid ?55 for as many illustrated volumes. For connoisseurs, there is no more magical-or diverting-world in miniature than the exquisite illustrations turned out by Persian artists over a period that extended for 600 years down to the 19th century. Culling the best from British collections, London's Victoria and Albert Museum is displaying a matchless, summer-long exhibition of 184 examples to demonstrate that Persian...