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Article: The Authentic Bernard Berenson
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- The Washington Post
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- May 10, 1987
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BERNARD BERENSON
The Making of a Legend
By Ernest Samuels
With the collaboraton of
Jayne Newcomer Samuels
Belknap/Harvard. 680 pp. $25
WITH THE PUBLICATION of Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend,
Ernest Samuels-now working in collaboration with Jayne Samuels-brings
to resplendent completion his account of one of the truly unique
careers in American cultural history. Early on in his long lifetime
(1865-1959) Bernard Berenson won an immense, worldwide reputation as
the greatest connoisseur of Old Master painting of his day. His work
in identifying and illuminating the achievements of the painters of
the Italian Renaissance marked a crucial turning point in the study
and ...