Isabella Stewart Gardner letters to Bernard Berenson
name: label: Creator
content: Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
label: Names
content: Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- Italy
label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Italy
label: Topic
content: Art, Renaissance -- Italy
label: Topic
content: Art patronage
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilm copy lent by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 1974. AAA duplicated the microfilm for its own collections. Microfilm labeled Isabella Stewart Gardner papers.
creator: label: Creator
content: Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art historian, critic, collector, and teacher; Florence, Italy. First name often spelled Bernhard. Was "discovered" by Isabella Stewart Gardner immediately after his graduation from Harvard. As a patron of the fine arts, Gardner financed Berenson's travels in Italy to collect Italian Renaissance art for the Venetian palazzo she re-created in Boston. Berenson bought Villa I Tatti, his home in Florence, before the Second World War. During the war he and his wife and his personal secretary were exiles in the villa for several years. He lived there until his death where upon he bequeathed it to Harvard University.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Reel (ca. 400 items (on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1887-1924
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gardisas
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 699 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters from Isabella Stewart Gardner to Berenson and his wife, Mary.