Bernhard Berenson, 1865-1959. American art critic
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Finding-Aid for the Berenson Papers [00143]Collection Description
Letters, 1935
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Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, on June 26, 1865, Berenson grew up in Boston and graduated from Harvard University in 1887. His first book was The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance (1894). An authority on Italian Renaissance art, he is still best known for his monumental work, Italian Painters of the Renaissance (1952), a text still used by students of the Renaissance.
The two letters are from Berenson to Max Goldstein from I
Tatti, Florence. Berenson first requests photographs of certain
drawings being exhibited at the St. Louis City Art Museum. In
the second letter Berenson thanks Goldstein for the drawings and
speculates that drawings attributed to Michaelangelo in the
exhibit are actually by Passarotti, and one ascribed to Bronzius
may be by Batt. Lauco.