Preface Acknowledgments A Lithuanian Childhood Dreamer in Minot Street A Harvard Aesthete Literary Debut Cities of a Dream Seedtime of Art Beyond the Alps Disciple of Morelli The Smiths of Friday's Hill The Path to Monte Oliveto Master and Errant Pupil Trial of the Scholar-Aesthete Talent in Harness New Vistas at Home and Abroad Secrets of the Artistic Personality Heretic at the New Gallery The Tactile Imagination Only the Greatest in the World The Critical Gantlet The "Wizard of Quick Wits" A Duel with Vernon Lee A Tangled Web A Man of Affairs "Room for Berenson" A Union of "Minds and Feelings" A Victorian Husband The Study and Criticism of Italian Art The Wars of the Burlington Mission to the New World A New Beginning Selected Bibliography Notes Index
Ernest Samuels is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English, Emeritus, at Northwestern University and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Berenson has an ideal biographer in Samuels. Impeccable in method,
strong in narrative skill, Samuels scants nothing as to place,
period or person, and is no less remarkable for inwardness, depth
and charity of feeling.
*The Nation*
The depth in which this book explores the young connoisseur’s life
is quite extraordinary… Our understanding of Berenson’s life and
work is permanently changed.
*New York Times Book Review*
A remarkably absorbing and lucid biography of Berenson’s early
career. The book does full justice to the verve and excitement of
Berenson’s connoisseurship.
*Saturday Review*
This is a life filled with extraordinary people… Collectively they
made the 1890s outrageously exciting, and the Berensons, in their
relentless quest for recognition and security, serve as the perfect
mirror. Samuels turns the mirror deftly, through Boston, London,
Florence, Oxford, Vienna, and Chicago, pausing briefly in the
boudoir, lingering in the golden hills of Tuscany, relentlessly
reflecting the social scene… Samuels brilliantly captures it
all.
*Christian Science Monitor*
A portrait replete with the complex ironies created in the
conflicts between vaulting idealism and the harsh necessities of
living well… [It] makes clear the tortuous conflicts of his life,
and stands as a splendid monument to its author’s understanding of
the human quandaries of his extraordinary subject and his equally
extraordinary wife.
*Chronicle Review*
An in-depth, sensitive, and total portrait of Bernard Berenson.
[The] Making of a Connoisseur commences with B. B.’s childhood in
Lithuania, his family’s immigration to Boston, his education,
travel, and development during the first four decades of his life…
One eagerly anticipates the second volume that is to cover the last
five and a half decades.
*Choice*
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