Bernard Berenson
Berenson, Bernard
Born June 14 (26), 1865, in Vilnius; died Oct. 7, 1959, in Florence. American art historian. Graduated from Harvard University in 1887. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Literature, and a number of European academies. Lived in Italy from 1900.
In his works written between 1890 and the early 1900’s, Berenson first defined the stylistic characteristics of the Italian Renaissance schools and their representative masters. Berenson did a vast amount of work on the attribution of the paintings and drawings of Italian artists.
WORKS
The Italian Painters of the Renaissance. London, 1953.In Russian translation:
Zhivopistsy ital’ianskogo Vozrozhdeniia. Moscow, 1965.