Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade Medieval

Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade MedievalWhen Gilded Age millionaires wanted to buy Italian Renaissance paintings, the expert whose opinion they sought was Bernard Berenson. He combined vast erudition with an incredible eye and uncanny skill at attributing paintings. Those who sought his advice never suspected that he had grown up in a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family that had struggled to survive in Boston on the wages of his fathers work as a tin peddler. Berensons self

and a creative genius―this is the Matisse known and admired by everyone with even a passing interest in modem art

is now available as a collectible gift edition

wrote a holiday story at the request of his employer

held in equal esteem with works that entered the collection as acknowledged masterpieces

and the artisans of the Gobelins

Their transcriptions allow us to read the texts

happily it is now back in print after an absence of many years

it's perfect for both longtime and new Austen fans

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126 imaginatively rendered large initials

and versatile draftsman

A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens