Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
1865, Butrimonys, Lithuania (Russian Empire) — 1959, Settignano, Italy
Lithuania · United States · Italy
Bernard Berenson is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Berenson was the most influential connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting of his age, whose authentications and catalogues shaped the great American art collections and the market itself. His villa I Tatti near Florence became a renowned centre of scholarship, later bequeathed to Harvard. He was born into a Lithuanian Jewish family that emigrated to Boston, and though he later converted to Christianity his Jewish origins are well documented.
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Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
