Bernard Berenson
Historian
1865-06-26 – 1959-10-06
Bernard Berenson was an American art historian and critic, renowned for his scholarship on Italian Renaissance painting. His attributions and connoisseurship shaped collecting and museum practice in the twentieth century.
Books by Bernard Berenson
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Looking at Pictures with Bernard Berenson
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The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1887-1924, with Correspondence by Mary Berenson
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Quotes by Bernard Berenson
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A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise, why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans or Hindus who have never heard of her?
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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