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...vaulted hall of Florence's Palazzo Strozzi, one day last week, art scholars and critics from all over the world were waiting. Through a tiny oaken door stepped a frail, bearded little man, Bernhard Berenson, the world's greatest authority on Italian Renaissance art. Bobbing and nodding his white beard to the ovation, he hurried, with staccato steps, to the center of a long table. There, Italy's Minister of Education Guido Gonella presented him with two bronze medals, one four centuries old, the other struck especially in his honor. After the minister's speech, cheers...
...Stein's book is not about recent events nor political ones; it is concerned mainly with the historic freshness in painting that he came across as a young American in Paris 40 years ago. His friend Bernard Berenson, the top authority on Italian art, told him to look at the Cézannes at Dealer Ambroise Vollard's in 1904; soon afterward he discovered Matisse and Picasso. He and Gertrude had just settled down at 27 rue de Fleurus, the address Gertrude later made famous. But according to Leo she brought no pictures home until...
...almost unknown to the lay public, but to experts the top authority on Italian Renaissance painting is so well known that they refer to him as "B.B." B.B. (for Bernard Berenson) thinks there is some hope for a modern renaissance in British art-if artists learn to draw. In London's New Statesman & Nation he wrote...
...Berenson implied that one cause of bad painting (not to mention bad music and bad literature) is economic: the necessity of learning one's art too fast in a fiercely competitive and not very discerning market. But he was set against helping artists out.. "In the [United] States after the panic of 1929," Berenson wrote, "the New Deal tried to make work for thousands of painters at public expense. They were kept alive, but I have not heard of the masterpieces they created...
Engaged. Marisa ("Gogo") Schiaparelli, 21, beauteous, blue-eyed daughter of Couturière Elsa Schiaparelli; and Robert Berenson, 27, Grace Line travel executive, second cousin of famed expatriate Art Critic Bernard Berenson; in Manhattan...