Word: berenson
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...city, she argues, "that is not a small New York, as they say a child is not a small adult, but is, rather, a specially organized small creature with its small-creature's temperature, balance and distribution of fat." Her recollection of the aging, epicene art critic Bernard Berenson, living out his dotage in Florence as if he were the celebrant of some exquisite secular liturgy, is a masterpiece of kindly malice...
...collecting in a small way before World War I. Finally, about 1920, he met the Italian collector Count Contini-Bonacossi in Rome. Kress decided on the spot that he would some day have a collection as good as the count's. Soon he was the friend of Bernard Berenson, and eventually the client of the ubiquitous Lord Duveen...
Professor Murdock arrived at the Italian villa Sept. 1, when the project first began. The summer home of the late Bernard Berenson, I Tatti had been bequeathed to the University as a center for independent study of Italian...
...late Bernard Berenson had nothing but affection for the work of the isth century Italian Artist Carlo Crivelli. But when B. B. came to write his authoritative studies of Italian Renaissance painters, he felt obliged to leave Crivelli out. Though the artist was the contemporary of Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna and Piero della Francesca, he remained, in Berenson's opinion, essentially an exponent of the Late Gothic spirit-superb in his way, but "the product of stationary, if not reactionary, conditions." Last week 80 works by Crivelli and his followers were shown in the Doges' Palace of Venice...
...polyptych. From the wild gentleness of John the Baptist to the virile saintliness of the great Pope (sometimes identified as Gregory, sometimes as Sylvester) to the sweet composure of the Madonna, the emotions change, though so subtly and silently as to be almost imperceptible. Crivelli's paintings, said Berenson himself, are "full of the deepest contrition, most tender pity, and mystical devotion . . . He takes rank with the most genuine artists of all times and countries, and does not weary even when 'great masters' grow tedious...