LEADER 04119nam 22006851 450 001 9910967137203321 005 20251116192827.0 010 $a9780300199147 010 $a0300199147 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300199147 035 $a(CKB)2550000001128165 035 $a(EBL)3421314 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001003220 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11582174 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001003220 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11028099 035 $a(PQKB)10058540 035 $a(DE-B1597)485930 035 $a(OCoLC)860904273 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300199147 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421314 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10777598 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL528799 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421314 035 $a(Perlego)1089166 035 $z(OCoLC)860904273 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001128165 100 $a20130611d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBernard Berenson $ea life in the picture trade /$fRachel Cohen 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew Haven :$cYale University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 225 1 $aJewish lives 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780300149425 311 08$a0300149425 311 08$a9781299975484 311 08$a1299975488 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-314) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction --$t1 Jews of Boston --$t2 First Conversions --$t3 Isabella, Mary, Italy --$t4 Looking at Pictures with Bernhard Berenson --$t5 Selling and Building: The Gardner Museum and the Villa I Tatti --$t6 The Picture Trade: Joseph Duveen, Belle Greene, Edith Wharton --$t7 Nicky Mariano and the Library --$t8 The Retrospective View --$tNOTES --$tSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINDEX 330 $aWhen Gilded Age millionaires wanted to buy Italian Renaissance paintings, the expert whose opinion they sought was Bernard Berenson, with his vast erudition, incredible eye, and uncanny skill at attributing paintings. They visited Berenson at his beautiful Villa I Tatti, in the hills outside Florence, and walked with him through the immense private library-which he would eventually bequeath to Harvard-without ever suspecting that he had grown up in a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family that had struggled to survive in Boston on the wages of the father's work as a tin peddler. Berenson's extraordinary self-transformation, financed by the explosion of the Gilded Age art market and his secret partnership with the great art dealer Joseph Duveen, came with painful costs: he hid his origins and felt that he had betrayed his gifts as an interpreter of paintings. Nevertheless his way of seeing, presented in his books, codified in his attributions, and institutionalized in the many important American collections he helped to build, goes on shaping the American understanding of art today. This finely drawn portrait of Berenson, the first biography devoted to him in a quarter century, draws on new archival materials that bring out the significance of his secret business dealings and the way his family and companions-including his patron Isabella Stewart Gardner, his lover Belle da Costa Greene, and his dear friend Edith Wharton-helped to form his ideas and his legacy. Rachel Cohen explores Berenson's inner world and exceptional visual capacity while also illuminating the historical forces-new capital, the developing art market, persistent anti-Semitism, and the two world wars-that profoundly affected his life. 410 0$aJewish lives (New Haven, Connecticut) 606 $aArt historians$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aArt historians 676 $a709.2 676 $aB 686 $aBIO018000$aBIO002000$aART015080$2bisacsh 700 $aCohen$b Rachel$f1973-$01811437 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967137203321 996 $aBernard Berenson$94363312 997 $aUNINA