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When famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson (Harvard '87) died last autumn at 94, he left his alma mater one of the world's great altars to art-his own legendary villa, / Tatti* nestled in the Tuscan hills near Florence. Last week Harvard formally accepted the $1,000,000 estate, launched plans to fulfill Berenson's dream of making / Tatti a humanistic-studies center for scholars of all nations. Next year Harvard hopes to begin sending up to 20 scholars at a time to the 40-room villa, which Berenson called "a library with living rooms attached...
...Built in 1724 and named after an ancient nearby flour mill called / Tatti. The word has no other meaning...
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...
Because of Berenson's constantly stated desire that his estate, "I Tatti," be left just as it had been during his life time, sources deem it unlikely that the art at the estate will be removed to America...
Would that there were more time at I Tatti. A whirlwind tour of the museum Berenson, for it is literally that, doesn't suffice even for a first look. But Berenson would be awaiting his visitors at Casa al Dono. Time remained only for a few photographs. The Tuscan light, often over-brilliant, favors subjects admirably. A deep grey light of great clarity pronounced the rich earth colors of the Sassetta-like hills with their patterned bushes. The occasional pieces of white sculpture became phantasmal objects in their arbors of thick foliage. The tall veridian poplars of Piero della Francesa...