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...long ago when La Pira pressed the council to approve his long-cherished scheme for construction of a "satellite city" which would house 12,000 Florentines who now live either in slums or on the streets. The project aroused the esthetic displeasure of famed Art Expert Bernard Berenson: it would lie on the road to his villa. And it aroused the political wrath of the Social Democrats because of La Pira's failure to consult them. Faced with the likelihood of a vote of "no confidence," La Pira resigned as mayor...
...villa of Bernard Berenson '87, noted art critic, will be left to Harvard upon Berenson's death, John Coolidge, Director of the Fogg Art Museum, said yesterday. Berenson is in his early nineties...
Coolidge said that the villa could be used as "a research institute for all the humanities." He pointed out that although the University had many scientific outposts, Dumbarton Oaks was the only one devoted to the humanities. He said that the Berenson villa would give the University "an opportunity of creating a center of study in a place where much of our civilization was begun...
...Says Renaissance Art Expert Bernard Berenson of Lute Player: "It is a young Roman girl...
Last week the Carracci received a tribute from the greatest holdout of them all, Critic Bernard Berenson,,' who once dismissed their whole school as "worthless." Wrote Berenson in Milan's Corriere della Sera: "After a century of obscurity and almost oblivion the Carracci, with a roll of drums and the sound of trumpets, have made their great comeback in Bologna." Berenson still refused to place the Carracci "among the greatest painters," but he gave a cheer for Annibale's Butcher Shop. Said he: "My attention is attracted by the realism that pervades this painting...