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...this time, her special agent was Bernard Berenson, the precocious art critic who had hobnobbed with his professors as a Harvard undergraduate. Mrs. Jack lent him money to study in Europe after he graduated, an investment which paid off in opportunities to buy great paintings she could not without his aid. Through him, she bought Titian's "Rape of Europa," called by many critics the most important picture in America...
...rightly guessed that Berenson could learn to advise her well. Soon, in the warm air and sculptured hills of Tuscany, Berenson began to find "it" with increasing frequency. Immersed in the works of the great Italian painters, he scratched up a living by taking tourists through the museums and churches of Florence at 1 lira a head. He recalls a terror of being knifed by the local guides, but that did not stop him from feeling ecstasy before the masterpieces of the Renaissance. In 1894 he published the first of his four famed guides to Renaissance art (later reissued...
Weaver has already launched a "Wise Old Men" series to bring such elders as Bertrand Russell, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Bernhard Berenson onto TV screens, and he likes to talk of whole future programs devoted to cultural events. But Weaver's principal preoccupation is still the problem of turning his gamble into a success among televiewers and advertisers...
John Singer Sargent painted Mrs. Jack again and again, helped give her an intimate appreciation of art. In middle age she sponsored a curlylocked student named Bernard Berenson, saw him through Harvard and off to Italy, and entrusted him with a proud mission: to help build a first-rate collection of old masters. (He stayed on in Florence to become the world's foremost authority on Renaissance art.) At the turn of the century, Mrs. Jack started construction of an Italian palace in the marshes on the outskirts of Boston. Already in her 60s, she joined workmen...
Among the first to approve the restoration was the ancient Expertizer of Renaissance Art, Bernard Berenson, 89, who climbed a scaffold to examine the picture minutely. He reported afterwards: "I felt that I had touched bottom . . . and that I was gazing on the true painting of Leonardo, spoiled, to be sure, by the centuries, but no longer smeared by incompetent hands. [At] a few yards . . . the figures emerged as if from a mist, large and imposing. Space was full of their presence...