Word: berensons
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Bequeathed to Harvard in 1959 by noted art scholar and authenticator Bernard Berenson, the villa houses more than 80,000 books and pamphlets and 150,000 photographs, while also providing a launching point for forays into Florence's vast art collections. Visiting fellows, full-time resident scholars and students with appointments are provided access to the facility's resources...
...villa's social calendar is tame in comparison to Bernard Berenson's time, when I Tatti was the focus of the literati set, says Agnes Mongan, the former director of the Fogg Art Museum and curator of prints emeritus...
Simpson used the Duveen archives to gain keyinformation about Berenson's relationship to theart dealer. The Duveen archives were left to theMetropolitan Museum in New York by Edward Fowles,a Duveen associate, under the condition that thearchives remain sealed until...
...Simpson said he had the legal right toexamine the Duveen archives and include thematerial in his Berenson biography...
...Berenson, who died in 1959 at the age of 94,left his Florentine villa, I Tatti, to theUniversity. I Tatti is now used by Harvard as acenter for Italian Renaissance studies