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Article: Dear B.B.: Hugh Trevor-Roper's entertaining letters to Bernard Berenson reveal a great deal about attitudes to art history in post-war Oxford, and demonstrate the significance of Trevor-Roper's own approach to the subject.(Letters from Oxford to Bernard Berenson Hugh Trevor-Roper)(Book review)
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Letters from Oxford to Bernard Berenson Hugh Trevor-Roper Edited by Richard Davenport-Hines Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 13 9 780297 850847
IS there ... any book on the Habsburg collection in the Hradschin in Prague, under Rudolf a comparable with those admirable works which I found in your librarv [at I Tatti], Berogni's Tiziano en el Prado and Luzio's La Galleria dei Gonzaga? Is there any thing on the collecting activities of Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin or Queen Christina of Sweden?' Hugh Trevor-Roper was writing from Christ Church, Oxford, on 23 March 1952 to Bernard Berenson. Their correspondence began on 29 August 1947, when ...