Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson
Subtitle: collector and connoisseur
By: Stanley Mazaroff.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801895128
Subjects: Walters, Henry, -- 1848-1931; Berenson, Bernard, -- 1865-1959; Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.); Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Berenson's mission; title: Walters' cultivation; title: One copy on top of another; title: The Massarenti collection; title: A remarkable acquisition; title: The sacrifice of candor for acclaim; title: The Walters/Berenson contract; title: The paintings Berenson sold to Walters; title: Berenson's Faustian bargain with Duveen; title: The judgment of Berenson; title: The unfinished catalogue; title: A museum in repose; title: The line between fact and fiction; title: Faded memories; title: Afterword; title: Appendices; title: Letters between Walters and Berenson; title: Lists of paintings.