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...Italian Renaissance," wrote the late Bernard Berenson, "was a period in the history of modern Europe comparable to youth in the life of an individual. It had all youth's love of finery and of play." This is true of its art, and never more so than when the work itself was done by a young, aspiring painter. Such is the case with Correggio's youthful masterpiece (opposite), done when the artist was barely...
...most important acquisition since El Greco's Assumption of the Virgin in 1906. Actually, any pricing of Correggio is arbitrary; in his 40 years, he painted only 40 well authenticated works, and until Chicago's purchase only five were owned by U.S. museums.* And, although Connoisseur Berenson judged Correggio "too sensuous, and therefore limited," the artist has remained astonishingly popular through the centuries...
Income from the estate of Bernard Berenson, who willed the villa and its library to Harvard in 1959, is $65,000. A two-million dollar endowment would increase the annual income...
CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON, recalled by Count Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. The century's most celebrated connoisseur of Italian painting was also a dazzling conversationalist whose aphorisms and tidbits of gossip fortunately were recorded for posterity by Count Morra...
CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON, recalled by Count Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. The century's most celebrated connoisseur of Italian painting, the late Bernard Berenson was also a dazzling conversationalist whose aphorisms and tidbits of gossip fortunately were recorded for posterity by Count Morra...