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Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson : collector and connoisseur / Stanley Mazaroff ; foreword by William R. Johnston.
LIBRA N5220.W43 M39 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mazaroff, Stanley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walters, Henry, 1848-1931.
- Walters, Henry.
- Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959.
- Berenson, Bernard.
- Art--Collectors and collecting--United States--Biography.
- Art.
- Art--Collectors and collecting.
- United States.
- Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 212 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Berenson's mission
- Walters's cultivation
- One copy on top of another
- The Massarenti collection
- A remarkable acquisition
- The sacrifice of candor for acclaim
- The Walters-Berenson contract
- The paintings Berenson sold to Walters
- Berenson's Faustian bargain with Duveen
- The judgment of Berenson
- The unfinished catalogue
- A museum in repose
- The line between fact and fiction
- Faded memories
- Afterword
- Appendixes
- Selected correspondence between Walters and Berenson
- Lists of paintings.
- Notes:
- "In association with The Walters Art Musem."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801895128
- 080189512X
- OCLC:
- 436221309
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