Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings.

Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some of his authentications, which may have been influenced by the exceptionally high commissions paid to him.

Berenson was born Bernhard Valvrojenski in Butrimonys, Vilnius Governorate (now in Alytus district of Lithuania) to a Litvak family – father Albert Valvrojenski, mother Judith Mickleshanski, and younger siblings including Senda Berenson Abbott. His father, Albert, grew up following an educational track of classical Jewish learning and contemplated becoming a rabbi. However, he became a practitioner of Haskalah, a European movement which advocated more integration of Jews into secular society. After his home and lumber business were burned to the ground, he lived with his more traditionalist in-laws who pressured him to enroll Bernard with a Hebrew and Aramaic tutor. Instead, they emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1875, whereupon the family name was changed to "Berenson." Berenson converted to Christianity in 1885, becoming an Episcopalian. Later, while living in Italy, he converted to Catholicism.

After graduating from Boston Latin School, he attended the Boston University College of Liberal Arts as a freshman during 1883–84, but, unable to obtain instruction in Sanskrit from that institution, transferred to Harvard University for his sophomore year. He graduated from Harvard and married Mary Smith, who became a notable art historian in her own right. Mary was the sister of Logan Pearsall Smith and of Alys Pearsall Smith, the first wife of Bertrand Russell. Mary had previously been married to barrister Frank Costelloe. Bernard Berenson was also involved in a long relationship with Belle da Costa Greene. Samuels (1987) mentions Mary's "reluctant acceptance (at times)" of this relationship.

Among US collectors of the early 1900s, Berenson was regarded as the pre-eminent authority on Renaissance art. Early in his career, Berenson developed his own unique method of connoisseurship by combining the comparative examination techniques of Giovanni Morelli with the aesthetic idea put forth by John Addington Symonds that something of an artist's personality could be detected through his works of art. While his approach remained controversial among European art historians and connoisseurs, he played a pivotal role as an advisor to several important American art collectors, such as Isabella Stewart Gardner, who needed help in navigating the complex and treacherous market of newly fashionable Renaissance art. Berenson's expertise eventually became so well regarded that his verdict of authorship could either increase or decrease a painting's value dramatically. In this respect Berenson's influence was enormous, while his 5% commission made him a wealthy man. (According to Charles Hope, he "had a financial interest in many works...an arrangement that Berenson chose to keep private.")

His beautiful residence in Settignano near Florence, which has been called "I Tatti" since at least the 17th century, became The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, a research center offering a residential fellowship to scholars working on all areas of the Italian Renaissance. He had willed it to Harvard well before his death, to the bitterness of his wife Mary. It houses his art collection and his personal library of books on art history and humanism, which Berenson regarded as his most enduring legacy.

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creatorOf Elisabeth Commanday papers Archives of American Art
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referencedIn Records of the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Galerie Bonnier, 1918-1997 Getty Research Institute
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creatorOf Ernest Hemingway Papers. 1899 - 1977. Incoming Letters John F. Kennedy Library
referencedIn Walter Pach papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Jacques Loeb Papers, 1889-1924 Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
creatorOf Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1874-1940. [Letters] 1917 [to] Bernard Berenson / [Frederic Fairchild Sherman] Smith College, Neilson Library
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creatorOf Smith, Hannah Whitall, 1832-1911. Papers, 1817-1987. Indiana University
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creatorOf George Biddle papers Archives of American Art
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referencedIn Grace Nobili Papers MS 114., 1880-1953 Sophia Smith Collection
creatorOf Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959. Letters received, 1952 Oct. 2-1956 April 14, from J. Paul Getty. Getty Research Institute
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referencedIn Louise Chandler Moulton Papers, 1852-1908 Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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referencedIn Oral history interview with Katharine Kuh Archives of American Art
referencedIn Papers of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, ca. 1860-1969 (inclusive) Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records. : Series I., General Correspondence, 1922-1977 (bulk 1946-1966). Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
creatorOf Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959. Letters to Margaret Scolari Barr, 1936-1966. Houghton Library
referencedIn Joseph Lindon Smith papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Mead, Larkin G. (Larkin Goldsmith), 1835-1910. Professore Larkin G Meads visitors book at studio : manuscript, 1889-1907. Houghton Library
referencedIn Maurice Sterne papers Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
referencedIn William Mathewson Milliken papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959. Copy of long letter to Belle Greene, 1921 July 17. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts Papers, 1910-2005, 1910-2005 Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
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creatorOf Henry-Russell Hitchcock papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Duveen Brothers records, 1876-1981, 1909-1964 Getty Research Institute
referencedIn New Directions Publishing records Houghton Library
referencedIn Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006 Harvard Art Museums. Archives
creatorOf Florence M. Barnes letter and printed material Archives of American Art
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creatorOf Berenson family. Berenson family papers, 1894-1941. Houghton Library
referencedIn Abram Kanof Papers, 1858-1991 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
referencedIn Edith Wharton collection, 1868-1981 (inclusive) Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
creatorOf Berenson, Mary, 1864-1945. Letter : Florence, Italy, to Lucy Martin Donnelly, Bryn Mawr, Pa., 1936 April 8. Bryn Mawr College, Mariam Coffin Canaday Library
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referencedIn Sinclair Lewis papers, 1866-1964, 1910-1950 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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referencedIn Royal Cortissoz papers, 1864-1955, 1920-1955 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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referencedIn Papers of Avis Howard Thayer Bohlen, 1929-1981 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
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referencedIn Herrick, Robert. Papers, 1887-1960 Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library,
creatorOf Le Vane, Ethel. Correspondence with Bernard Berenson, 1952-1960. Getty Research Institute
referencedIn Papers of Paul J. Sachs, 1903-2005 Harvard Art Museums. Archives
referencedIn Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919. Kenyon Cox papers, circa 1860-1922. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
creatorOf William Mills Ivins papers Archives of American Art
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referencedIn Alvin Saunders Johnson papers, 1902-1969 Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
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referencedIn Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982 Houghton Library
referencedIn William Mills Ivins papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Robert Lowell papers, 1861-1976 (inclusive) 1935-1970 (bulk). Houghton Library
creatorOf Isabella Stewart Gardner letters to Bernard Berenson Archives of American Art
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referencedIn Abraham Harriton Papers, 1915-1965 Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center
referencedIn Papers of Myron Piper Gilmore, 1947-1980s. Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Papers, 1836-1975. Indiana University
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referencedIn Papers of Avis Howard Thayer Bohlen, 1929-1981 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn David Kasmire papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Papers of Edward Waldo Forbes, 1867-2005 Harvard Art Museums. Archives
referencedIn Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977. Katherine Biddle papers, 1907-1977 (bulk 1935-1969). Georgetown University, Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library
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creatorOf Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959. Walter W. Taylor papers and ephemera, 1941-1950. San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Maritime Research Center, Maritime Library, Maritime Archives
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Place Name Admin Code Country
Republic of Lithuania 00 LT
Italy
France
California--San Diego
Boston MA US
Subject
American literature
Publishers and publishing
Aesthetics
Art
Art
Art
Art and society
Art and society
Art dealers
Art historians
Art historians
Art historians
Art, Italian
Art museum curators
Art, Renaissance
Arts
Authors and publishers
Literary agents
Painting, European
Painting, Renaissance
Renaissance
Renaissance
Sculpture, Renaissance
World War, 1939-1945
Occupation
Art critics
Art historians
Authors
Activity

Person

Birth 1865-06-26

Death 1959-10-06

Male

Lithuanians,

Americans

Sanskrit,

German,

French,

English,

Italian

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