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.
It is difficult to imagine a better biography or a better subject
for one. Mr. Berenson wanted to improve the world, and he did. How
he did it is a heroic and terribly human story...Everybody who was
anybody in the art world at the time appears in Bernard
Berenson...The killings in the art market, the quarrels among
experts and the convoluted negotiations all make for even better
reading than one might anticipate, for at the center of it all,
beyond the story of our greatest art critic, is art itself.
Painstakingly researched and beautifully written.
Remarkably absorbing...Does full justice to the verve and
excitement of Berenson's connoisseurship.
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.
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