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...Bernard Berenson, the most cultivated of men and renowned of art historians, died yesterday after a long illness. "B.B.", as his many friends called him, classified the vast, disorganized material of Florentine drawing and Italian Renaissance painting; he was the Linnaeus of art history...
More important, perhaps, than Berenson's scholarly achievements were his extensive contributions to the education of young scholars. "B.B." opened his villa, "I Tatti," to students who wished to use his enormous library and art collection, and to learn from his brilliant, instructive conversation. For those who have known "B.B.", for those who have experienced his incisive intellect through his numerous writings, or for those who have seen the fruits of Berenson's taste exhibited in major art collections both here and abroad, it will be impossible to forget his personality and achievement...
There is still much digging to be done. But already there stands glowing against the Mediterranean blue a vast forest of marble splendor, slightly decadent in detail by Hellenic standards, and yet overpowering in total effect. The ruins, says Bernard Berenson, "are evocative and romantic to a degree that it would be hard to exaggerate. One wants to look and dream, and dream and look. Leptis is, all considered, one of the most impressive fields of ruins on the shores of the Mediterranean...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner of Boston was a plain Jane with weird endearing ways. All men were apparently fascinated by her. To Bernard Berenson, who constantly advised her on what to buy, she was "the Serpent of the Charles [River]." To T. Jefferson Coolidge she was "Aphrodite with a lining of Athene." Henry James wrote to her about "those evenings at your board and in your box, those tea-times in your pictured halls [which] flash again in my mind's eye as real life-saving stations." To her patient husband she was simply "Busy Ella...
...word invented by Renaissance Art Expert Bernard Berenson to denote clients with uncounted millions...