Table of Contents

Preface Lino Pertile; Acknowledgments - Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Israels; Note to the Use of the Catalogue; Abbreviations; Glossary of People in the Berenson Circle Mentioned in the Text; Section I: Introductory Essays and Entries 0 to 111; Essay I: "Bernard and Mary Collect: Pictures Come to I Tatti" - Carl Brandon Strehlke; Essay II: "The Berensons and Siena" (working title) - Machtelt Israels; Essay III: "Passions Intertwined: Art and Photography at I Tatti" - Giovanni Pagliarulo; Entries: Paintings from the 14th to 18th century - Plates 0 to 111; Section II: Fakes; Essay IV: The Berensons and the Sienese Forger Federico Ioni - Gianni Mazzoni; Entries: Fakes - Plates 112 to 116; Section III: Roger Fry; Essay V: "Roger Fry and Bernard Berenson" - Caroline Elam; Entry: Fry - Plate 117; Section IV: Rene Piot; Essay VI: "A Failure: Rene Piot and the Berensons" - Claudio Pizzorusso; Entries: Piot - Plates 118 to 131; Section V: The Berensons, Family and Friends; Entries: Portraits - Plates 132 to 138; Entries: Miscellanea - Plates 139 to 148; Appendix: Paintings Formerly Owned by the Berensons - Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Israels; Bibliography; Photo Credits; Index.

About the Author

Carl Brandon Strehlke is Curator Emeritus of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for which he published a catalogue of early Italian paintings in 2004. He has written about and curated exhibitions on Florentine and Sienese Renaissance art, Fra Angelico, Pontormo and Bronzino. Machtelt Bruggen Israels is guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 she edited two volumes for Villa I Tatti on Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece. She has written and lectured about Sienese art, Piero della Francesca, and Renaissance patronage.