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Bernard Berenson [ Texto impreso] : a life in the picture trade / Rachel Cohen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish livesPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2013.Description: viii, 328 p. : il. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780300149425
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Contents:
Introduction (p. 1) -- 1. Jews of Boston (p. 10) -- 2. First conversions (p. 36) -- 3. Isabella, Mary, Italy (p. 53) -- 4. Looking at pictures with Bernhard Berenson (p. 84) -- 5. Selling and building: the Gardner Museum and the Villa I Tatti (p. 115) -- 6. The picture trade: Joseph Duveen, Belle Greene, Edith Wharton (p. 157) -- 7. Nicky Mariano and the library (p. 198) -- 8. The retrospective view (p. 243).
Información biográfica o histórica: Rachel Cohen teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.Bibliography: Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 303-314) e índice.Summary: "An insightful, richly detailed account of Bernard Berenson's brilliant transformation from an immigrant Jew and son of a tin peddler into a connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting and a dealer in secret partnership with Joseph Duveen. With the keen gaze that Berenson brought to a picture, Rachel Cohen analyzes his high-wire act of self-invention against the glittering, aristocratic, anti-Semitic world of art collecting." -- Solapa anterior.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Monografía prestable Biblioteca FJM Sala general Estudios Curatoriales N 7483 .B47 C64 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 1213823

Introduction (p. 1) -- 1. Jews of Boston (p. 10) -- 2. First conversions (p. 36) -- 3. Isabella, Mary, Italy (p. 53) -- 4. Looking at pictures with Bernhard Berenson (p. 84) -- 5. Selling and building: the Gardner Museum and the Villa I Tatti (p. 115) -- 6. The picture trade: Joseph Duveen, Belle Greene, Edith Wharton (p. 157) -- 7. Nicky Mariano and the library (p. 198) -- 8. The retrospective view (p. 243).

"An insightful, richly detailed account of Bernard Berenson's brilliant transformation from an immigrant Jew and son of a tin peddler into a connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting and a dealer in secret partnership with Joseph Duveen. With the keen gaze that Berenson brought to a picture, Rachel Cohen analyzes his high-wire act of self-invention against the glittering, aristocratic, anti-Semitic world of art collecting." -- Solapa anterior.

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