Title: Bernard Berenson photograph collection of Chinese art
Authors: Faraglia, Cesare,; Monti, Paolo; Becker, Paul,; Quattrone, Antonio; Gossin, E,; Bertoni, Marcello,; Sauvanaud-Langlois,; Koshiba,; Champeau, Lawrence X.,; Mcbeth, Donald,; Hayes, C.M.,; Ellis, H.C.,; Hackett, G.D.,; Berenson Library.; Morton & Co.,; Braun,
Year: 1880
Subjects: Berenson, Bernard, Photograph collections.; Jade art objects China photographs.; Buddhist sculpture China photographs.; Gilt bronzes, Chinese photographs.; Painting China.; Sculpture China; Landscape painting; Calligraphy, Chinese.; Art, Chinese; Dunhuang Caves (China) Antiquities.
Abstract: The collection includes reproductions of paintings, sculptures, bronzes, porcelain, jades, textiles and ambers held in museums or private collections in America, Europe, and Australia. The majority represent artifacts in the British Museum in London, Fogg Museum of Art (Cambridge), Metropolitan Museum (New York), Freer Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). Of particular interest are 8 panoramic photographs and rubbings of Han tombstones. Also contains non-photographic material, such as postcards, letterpress halftones, notes by Bernard Berenson and copies of letters sent by collectors in America and Europe. Chinese scrolls now in the Berenson Art Collection in Villa I Tatti are documented by photographs taken by Antonio Quattrone.