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Villa I Tatti, Harvard's center for Renaissance studies outside Florence, Italy, is best known for its exquisite art collection and library, formerly the property of the art historian Bernard Berenson...
Clark's principal mentors were Walter Pater and Bernard Berenson. To the latter he maintained a long though not always harmonious apprenticeship. In an autobiography, Another Part of the Wood, he spoke of Berenson "perched on the pinnacle of a mountain of corruption." In return, Berenson complained that when Clark sold a painting, he was a gentleman improving his collection, whereas when Berenson did the same thing, he was a dealer turning a profit. It is certainly true that Clark's inherited wealth-his great-great-grandfather had invented the cotton spool-enabled him to do his work...
...award of $300 or $400 should not lure a student away from Bryn Mawr, where next year's tuition will be about $8500 said Jerry Berenson, director of financial...
Clark had suffered seizures one week after the heart was implanted and lapsed into what Berenson termed "acute brain syndrome," characterized by "delirium, decreased alertness, severe memory loss and confusion." The condition, she believed, was organic rather than emotional, perhaps brought on by the sudden increase in blood supply to a brain "that had become used to low cardiac output." When questioned, Clark would "look perplexed," Berenson said. "Sometimes he would not know he had had surgery or what it was for." Clark often appeared too discouraged to try to speak, but at times he was lucid enough...
Then late last month there was a sudden turnaround. Returning from a brief business trip, Berenson met Clark's wife Una Loy in the hospital corridor and was told, "Barney is great. He is a totally different person." Berenson quickly confirmed this for herself. "He started talking to me like I was a psychiatrist. It was a 20-minute monologue." Now, she said, Clark is "lucid and rational. He wants to participate in his recovery...