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...Berenson's Command. What was immediately apparent as Washingtonians filed past the most expensive painting in history was that their respect for its virtues had been distinctly enhanced by the beauty of its price tag, and that few among them who looked on the lady would be able, with the best of intentions, to admire her for herself alone. Washington's critics, however, welcomed the painting on esthetic rather than monetary grounds. "All in all," the Star's Frank Getlein sighed, "a lovely thing...
...courtly, erudite Director John Walker, 60, who has spent years negotiating for the painting, the present hoo-ha is simply proportionate to the prize. He has coveted Ginevra dei Bend ever since he was first shown the painting in the prince's collection by the late Bernard Berenson, in 1930. "After I became curator of the National Gallery," Walker recalls, "Berenson would say to me, 'I don't care what else you get as a curator, but before I die, I want you to get the Leonardo...
Complex as Life. Walker himself came to understand Berenson's insist -ence when he observed the lady at length while it was on loan at London's Na tional Gallery between 1951 and 1953. "This picture," he explains, "has a mysterious way of growing on you the more often you see it. To me, Ginevra is utterly fascinating, more fascinating than the Mona Lisa, a miracle of psychological insight. Only once did Leonardo attempt to convey a mood of melancholy reserve, of disillusioned detachment. One feels, to quote Yeats, that Ginevra has 'cast a cold...
...period of years to provide staffing for the Center. The Medical School also has other large building needs. And we are still $800,000 short of the $2 million in added endowment we have been seeking for the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Villa I Tatti, Bernard Berenson's famous home near Florence. But even here there is no end to the list; for already other needs begin to appear...
...site to help out. But the biggest requirement is helping hands. One California art historian, Eve Borsook of Pasadena, who rescued 130,000 negatives of art objects from the Uffizi, rushed them to Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence, the former hilltop home of Connoisseur Bernard Berenson. Then she carefully washed them one by one, saved them...