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Article: Bernard Berenson and the Twentieth Century.
- Article from:
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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If a doctrinal air has hovered over the Anglo-American history of Renaissance art in Italy, Bernard Berenson's reputation has had more than a little to do with it. In her even-handed explication of his relation to the art and art criticism of his time, Mary Ann Calo has stood back from the critical fray attending Berenson's legacy, and from his spirited and aphoristic prose, to reflect on the context and the intellectual moment of his thought. In analyzing Berenson's changing critical outlook, introduced in the course of his essays on Italian painting ("The Four Gospels"), she has illuminated its formative place in "aesthetic modernism", and linked this outlook, by way of ...