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...various lay and ecclesiastical bigwigs of Italy and the successive Popes themselves. The last person to leave a big gift of medieval Italian art to San Francesco was, oddly enough, a 20th century American who died in 1955--the collector-dealer Frederick Mason Perkins, a friend of Bernard Berenson...
Serious Lotto scholarship, based on newly unearthed documents (including Lotto's studio journal), didn't begin until the late 19th century. When Bernard Berenson wrote the monograph that defined Lotto's oeuvre in 1895, he caused a scandal by throwing out scores of pseudo-Lottos. Collectors, particularly ducal ones in Britain, were enraged by the high-handedness with which this young, upstart American Jew downgraded their swans to ducks, but the fact was that Berenson was 90% right in his Lotto reattributions. From this point the critical overhaul of Lotto slowly began...
...psychological complexity and the deep-running poetic current that came out of it seem (as they seemed to the young Berenson a century ago) peculiarly congenial to modern eyes. His work is sown with recondite allegories, complicated quirks, unexpected twists of meaning. Despite its often ravishing formal beauty, it is full of unease. Apart from Durer's famous etching Melancholia, Renaissance art can show no more poignant portrayal of the way depression freezes both action and curiosity in its sufferers than Lotto's Portrait of a Young Man, circa 1530. It depicts its subject with sallow face, deep dark eyes...
Even if the appeal succeeds, however, it will probably result at best in reducing her term to 20 years. Berenson's only chance of a shorter sentence is clemency from President Alberto Fujimori, and the prospect is considered highly unlikely...
...secret Peruvian military court sentenced Lori Berenson, 26, of New York City, to life imprisonment for treason. The prosecution said Berenson had aided the pro-Cuban Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, which was planning an attack on the Peruvian Congress, by stockpiling weapons, renting housing for the rebels and gathering information by posing as a journalist. Berenson's lawyer has already filed an appeal...