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...return to English art in a systematic way until the late 1950s, and in fact no more than a fraction of the prodigious collection of the Yale center had been assembled before 1959. In that year Mellon met his chief aesthetic guide and mentor−his English Bernard Berenson, as it were−the late art historian Basil Taylor. Taylor, a great scholar of English art, possessed a sense of ethical delicacy almost inconceivable in the art world today (and certainly never shared by Berenson): he advised Mellon unofficially, for free, accepting only his expenses, lest any other arrangement "cast...
...surprisingly, kept at it for three years. At 15, he wrote a life of Rembrandt. The chief works of Lugt's maturity, especially the great catalogues of Rembrandt and early Netherlandish drawings he compiled for the Louvre, are as basic to the study of Dutch art as Bernard Berenson's lists are to that of Italian...
BORN. To Marisa Berenson Randall, 30, jet-setting actress (Barry Lyndon, Cabaret), and James Randall, 33, a rivet manufacturer: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Starlite Melody...
...Berenson added that his nervousness before the election stemmed from his apprehension that the meeting would result in "the same thing that happened last year...
...Berenson, who said he was a supporter of Wiley's, said he feared the same divisions that existed within the club at that time would create opposition to his election...