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Bernard Berenson and the Twentieth Century:
Biography / Autobiography ; General, Bernard Berenson and the Twentieth Century
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Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend:
Biography / Autobiography, Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend
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Bernard Berenson and the Twentieth Century:
Biography / Autobiography ; General, Bernard Berenson and the Twentieth Century
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Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend:
Biography / Autobiography, Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend
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Bernard Berenson and the Twentieth Century:
Biography / Autobiography ; General, Bernard Berenson and the Twentieth Century
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Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur:
Critic, arbiter of taste, renowned authority on Renaissance painting and oracle
to millionaire art collectors, Bernard Berenson was the most formidable presence
in the art world for more than thirty years. Four decades of his life are
unfolded in this compelling book., Biography / Autobiography, Bernard Berenson:
The Making of a Connoisseur
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Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur:
Critic, arbiter of taste, renowned authority on Renaissance painting and oracle
to millionaire art collectors, Bernard Berenson was the most formidable presence
in the art world for more than thirty years. Four decades of his life are
unfolded in this compelling book., Biography / Autobiography, Bernard Berenson:
The Making of a Connoisseur
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The Berenson Archive : An Inventory of Correspondence Compiled on the Centenary
of the Birth of Bernard Berenson, 1865-1959:
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Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century:
Classic by noted art historian focuses on French cathedrals of the 13th century
as apotheosis of medieval style. Iconography, bestiaries, illustrated calendars,
gospels, secular history, many other aspects. The most illuminating . . . book
on the subject --Bernard Berenson. 190 black-and-whlite illus.
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Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century:
Classic by noted art historian focuses on French cathedrals of the 13th century
as apotheosis of medieval style. Iconography, bestiaries, illustrated calendars,
gospels, secular history, many other aspects. 'The most illuminating . . . book
on the subject'--Bernard Berenson. 190 black-and-whlite illus., Art & Art
Instruction ; European ; History - Medieval ; Subjects & Themes - Religious,
Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century
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Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century:
Classic by noted art historian focuses on French cathedrals of the 13th century
as apotheosis of medieval style. Iconography, bestiaries, illustrated calendars,
gospels, secular history, many other aspects. 'The most illuminating . . . book
on the subject'--Bernard Berenson. 190 black-and-whlite illus., Art & Art
Instruction ; European ; History - Medieval ; Subjects & Themes - Religious,
Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century
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The Burlington Magazine: A Centenary Anthology:
The Burlington Magazine has maintained a high, international reputation for
publishing authoritative writing on all aspects of art history since its
foundation in 1903 by a group of distinguished scholars headed by Roger Fry,
Bernard Berenson, and Herbert Horne. Now, in celebration of its centenary, an
eminent art historian has compiled this selection of some of the most
significant articles, reviews, editorials, and obituaries to appear in it during
the twentieth century. The resulting anthology has its surprises and is both
entertaining and informative., Art & Art Instruction ; Criticism, The Burlington
Magazine: A Centenary Anthology
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One Special Summer:
In 1951 sisters Lee and Jacqueline Bouvier (18 and 22 years old) travelled in
Europe and recorded their experiences in notes, letters, and drawings, which
were assembled and published in 1974. Privy to both mundane and extraordinary
experiences (including meeting Bernard Berenson), the two young women convey joy
and humor in their hand-written accounts and charming drawings. The book is
oversize (11x13"") and this reprint includes a brief new introductory note by
Lee (Bouvier) Radziwill. Her sister, former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier
Kennedy Onassis, died in 1994. (2006. 72 p.)
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The Outcry (New York Review Books Classics):
The Outcry, Henry James’s last published novel, is an effervescent comedy of
money and manners. An impoverished English lord and an American plutocrat clash
when a young art connoisseur, out to make a splash, declares the prize painting
from the lord’s collection to be in fact an even rarer, and pricier, painting
than anyone had ever thought. Featuring characters based on J. P. Morgan and
Bernard Berenson, The Outcry is one of the most amusing and surprising
performances of a great literary master, and is now back in print after 90
years. “The subject ... has been handled with ingenuity, not without humor, with
a fine effect of sharpness and perspicacity.” — The New York Times
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Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics:
Focusing on the work of the aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee, this
collection offers a wide range of critical writings that reflect the diversity
of Lee's own interests. Organized in a broadly chronological order these essays
examine key pieces in Lee's oeuvre, offering original approaches to a number of
Lee's works including 'Euphorion,' 'Hauntings: Fantastic Stories,' 'Prince
Albert and the Lady Snake,' 'Louis Norbert,' 'The Ballet of the Nations,' 'The
Handling of Words,' and 'Music and Its Lovers.' The book will also shed new
light on Lee's relationship with contemporaries such as her brother, the poet
Eugene Lee-Hamilton, her friend and mentor Walter Pater, and the art historian
and fellow intellectual Bernard Berenson., Literature - Classics / Criticism ;
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
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The Reef:
'I put most of myself into that opus,' Edith Wharton said of 'The Reef,'
possibly her most autobiographical novel. Published in 1912, it was, Bernard
Berenson told Henry Adams, 'better than any previous work excepting 'Ethan Frome.''
<P> A challenge to the moral climate of the day, 'The Reef' follows the fancies
of George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, intent on
proposing to the widowed Anna Leath. Unsettled by Anna's reticence, Darrow
drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly naive and impecunious young
woman whose relations with Darrow and Anna's family threaten his prospects for
success. <P> For its dramatic construction and acute insight into social mores
and the multifaceted problem of sexuality, 'The Reef' stands as one of Edith
Wharton's most daring works of fiction., Literature - Classics / Criticism ;
Classics ; Literary, The Reef
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Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics:
Focusing on the work of the aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee, this
collection offers a wide range of critical writings that reflect the diversity
of Lee's own interests. Organized in a broadly chronological order these essays
examine key pieces in Lee's oeuvre, offering original approaches to a number of
Lee's works including 'Euphorion,' 'Hauntings: Fantastic Stories,' 'Prince
Albert and the Lady Snake,' 'Louis Norbert,' 'The Ballet of the Nations,' 'The
Handling of Words,' and 'Music and Its Lovers.' The book will also shed new
light on Lee's relationship with contemporaries such as her brother, the poet
Eugene Lee-Hamilton, her friend and mentor Walter Pater, and the art historian
and fellow intellectual Bernard Berenson., Literature - Classics / Criticism ;
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
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Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics:
Focusing on the work of the aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee, this
collection offers a wide range of critical writings that reflect the diversity
of Lee's own interests. Organized in a broadly chronological order these essays
examine key pieces in Lee's oeuvre, offering original approaches to a number of
Lee's works including 'Euphorion,' 'Hauntings: Fantastic Stories,' 'Prince
Albert and the Lady Snake,' 'Louis Norbert,' 'The Ballet of the Nations,' 'The
Handling of Words,' and 'Music and Its Lovers.' The book will also shed new
light on Lee's relationship with contemporaries such as her brother, the poet
Eugene Lee-Hamilton, her friend and mentor Walter Pater, and the art historian
and fellow intellectual Bernard Berenson., Literature - Classics / Criticism ;
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
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Meyer Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing and Sculpture:
Admirers of the late, legendary art historian Meyer Schapiro will find this
first publication of his own artwork a revelation. More than 200 paintings,
drawings, and sculptures are reproduced; along with three never-published essays
-- 'On Representing and Knowing', 'Color as Expressive', and 'Drawing from the
Figure' -- they yield a surprising private view of this Renaissance man who was
a giant figure in American intellectual and artistic life from the 1930s until
his death in 1996 at age 91.<P>Of special interest are Schapiro's self-portraits
and renderings of such notable people as Bernard Berenson, Whittaker Chambers,
and Irving Howe. An introduction by Schapiro's widow, Lillian Milgram Schapiro,
gives insights into his early art education, and a preface by New York Times art
critic John Russell provides a personal reminiscence of this inspirational
figure in the art world who soared above the crowd as 'one of nature's
illuminants'., Art & Art Instruction ; Criticism ; Individual Artist ; American
- General, Meyer Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing and Sculpture
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Meyer Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing and Sculpture:
Admirers of the late, legendary art historian Meyer Schapiro will find this
first publication of his own artwork a revelation. More than 200 paintings,
drawings, and sculptures are reproduced; along with three never-published essays
-- 'On Representing and Knowing', 'Color as Expressive', and 'Drawing from the
Figure' -- they yield a surprising private view of this Renaissance man who was
a giant figure in American intellectual and artistic life from the 1930s until
his death in 1996 at age 91.<P>Of special interest are Schapiro's self-portraits
and renderings of such notable people as Bernard Berenson, Whittaker Chambers,
and Irving Howe. An introduction by Schapiro's widow, Lillian Milgram Schapiro,
gives insights into his early art education, and a preface by New York Times art
critic John Russell provides a personal reminiscence of this inspirational
figure in the art world who soared above the crowd as 'one of nature's
illuminants'., Art & Art Instruction ; Criticism ; Individual Artist ; American
- General, Meyer Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing and Sculpture
bol.ch - Das einfach runde Partnerprogramm
Meyer Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing and Sculpture:
Admirers of the late, legendary art historian Meyer Schapiro will find this
first publication of his own artwork a revelation. More than 200 paintings,
drawings, and sculptures are reproduced; along with three never-published essays
-- 'On Representing and Knowing', 'Color as Expressive', and 'Drawing from the
Figure' -- they yield a surprising private view of this Renaissance man who was
a giant figure in American intellectual and artistic life from the 1930s until
his death in 1996 at age 91.<P>Of special interest are Schapiro's self-portraits
and renderings of such notable people as Bernard Berenson, Whittaker Chambers,
and Irving Howe. An introduction by Schapiro's widow, Lillian Milgram Schapiro,
gives insights into his early art education, and a preface by New York Times art
critic John Russell provides a personal reminiscence of this inspirational
figure in the art world who soared above the crowd as 'one of nature's
illuminants'., Art & Art Instruction ; Criticism ; Individual Artist ; American
- General, Meyer Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing and Sculpture
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Meyer Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing and Sculpture:
Admirers of the late, legendary art historian Meyer Schapiro will find this
first publication of his own artwork a revelation. More than 200 paintings,
drawings, and sculptures are reproduced; along with three never-published essays
-- 'On Representing and Knowing', 'Color as Expressive', and 'Drawing from the
Figure' -- they yield a surprising private view of this Renaissance man who was
a giant figure in American intellectual and artistic life from the 1930s until
his death in 1996 at age 91.<P>Of special interest are Schapiro's self-portraits
and renderings of such notable people as Bernard Berenson, Whittaker Chambers,
and Irving Howe. An introduction by Schapiro's widow, Lillian Milgram Schapiro,
gives insights into his early art education, and a preface by New York Times art
critic John Russell provides a personal reminiscence of this inspirational
figure in the art world who soared above the crowd as 'one of nature's
illuminants'., Art & Art Instruction ; Criticism ; Individual Artist ; American
- General, Meyer Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing and Sculpture
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Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society, Selected Papers Volume
IV:
This fourth volume of Meyer Schapiro's Selected Papers contains his most
important writings on the theory and philosophy of art. His highly lucid
arguments, graceful prose, and extraordinary erudition guide readers through a
rich variety of fields and issues including the roles in society of the artist
and art, of the critic and criticism, and the relationships between patron and
artist, psychoanalysis and art, and philosophy and art.Adapting critical methods
from such wide-ranging fields as anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, biology
and other sciences, Schapiro appraises fundamental semantic terms such as
organic style , pictorial style , and form and content . Here he elucidates
eclipsed intent in a well-known text by Freud on Leonardo da Vinci, in another
by Heidegger on Vincent van Gogh, and he reflects on the critical methodology of
Bernard Berenson, and on the social philosophy of art in the writings of both
Diderot and the nineteenth century French artist/historian Eugene
Fromentin.Throughout all of his writings, Meyer Schapiro provides us with a
means of ordering our past that is reasoned and passionate, methodical and
inventive. In so doing, he revitalizes our faith in the unsurpassed importance
of both critical thinking and creative independence.
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Venice: Tales of the City (New ed) - Lovric, Michelle:
ISBN: 034911899X Published: Jan 2005 Format: Paperback Pages: 464 Elusive and
fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here
have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city's
foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both
international and native: here we meet Hans Christian Andersen, Paolo Barbaro,
Bernard Berenson, Mary Braddon, Casanova, Chekov, Thomas Coryate, Gabriele
D'Annunzio, John Evelyn, Hans Habe, Hermann Melville, Claude Monet, Margaret
Oliphant, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Francesco Sansovino, Frances Trollope
and Elio Zorzi. Variously a City of the Soul, The Watery City, The Merchant
City, City Afloat, City at Play, The Cruel City, City of Courtesans, City of
Arts, City of Flavours, The Haunted City and City of the Future, Venice is
captured here in all her moods. Brief Description: A beguiling collection of
prose and poetry about the magical, incomparable city of Venice which includes
many pieces which have never been published in English.
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A Tuscan Childhood (Vintage Departures):
"Wonderful...I fell immediately into her world, and was sorry when I reached the
end." --Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun
The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan
castle between the wars.
When Kinta Beeevor was five, her father, the painter Aubrey Waterfield, bought
the sixteenth-century Fortezza della Brunella in the Tuscan village of Aulla.
There her parents were part of a vibrant artistic community that included Aldous
Huxley, Bernard Berenson, and D. H. Lawrence. Meanwhile, Kinta and her brother
explored the glorious countryside, participated in the region's many seasonal
rites and rituals, and came to know and love the charming, resilient Italian
people. With the coming of World War II the family had to leave Aulla; years
later, though, Kinta would return to witness the courage and skill of the Tuscan
people as they rebuilt their lives. Lyrical and witty, A Tuscan Childhood
is alive with the timeless splendour of Italy.
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Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries
(Hardback) - Carrier, David:
ISBN: 0822336820 Published: Jul 2006 Format: Hardback Pages: 296 In "Museum
Skepticism", art historian David Carrier traces the birth, evolution, and
decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic
debate and discussion. Carrier contends that since the inception of the public
art museum during the French Revolution, its development has depended on growth:
on the expansion of collections, particularly to include works representing
non-European cultures, and on the proliferation of art museums around the globe.
Arguing that this expansionist project has peaked, he asserts that art museums
must now find new ways of making high art relevant to contemporary lives. Ideas
and inspiration may be found, he suggests, in mass entertainment such as popular
music and movies. Carrier illuminates the public role of art museums by
describing the ways that they influence how art is seen: through their
architecture, the contents of their collections, and the narratives they offer
museum visitors. He insists that an understanding of the art museum must also
take into account the role of collectors, curators, and museum architects.
Toward that end, he offers a series of case studies, showing how particular
museums and their collections evolved. Among those who figure prominently are:
Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, the first director of the Louvre; Bernard Berenson,
whose connoisseurship helped Isabella Stewart Gardner found her museum in
Boston; Ernest Fenollosa, who assembled much of the Asian art collection now in
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Albert Barnes, the distinguished collector of
modernist painting; and Richard Meier, architect of the J. Paul Getty museum.
Carrier's erudite consideration of what the art museum is and has been provides
the basis for understanding the radical transformation of its public role now
underway. Brief Description: Traces the birth, evolution, and decline of public
art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion.
This work suggests ideas and inspiration may be found in mass entertainment such
as popular music and movies. It illuminates the public role of art museums by
describing the ways they influence how art is seen.
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Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries
(Hardback) - Carrier, David:
ISBN: 0822336820 Published: Jul 2006 Format: Hardback Pages: 296 In "Museum
Skepticism", art historian David Carrier traces the birth, evolution, and
decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic
debate and discussion. Carrier contends that since the inception of the public
art museum during the French Revolution, its development has depended on growth:
on the expansion of collections, particularly to include works representing
non-European cultures, and on the proliferation of art museums around the globe.
Arguing that this expansionist project has peaked, he asserts that art museums
must now find new ways of making high art relevant to contemporary lives. Ideas
and inspiration may be found, he suggests, in mass entertainment such as popular
music and movies. Carrier illuminates the public role of art museums by
describing the ways that they influence how art is seen: through their
architecture, the contents of their collections, and the narratives they offer
museum visitors. He insists that an understanding of the art museum must also
take into account the role of collectors, curators, and museum architects.
Toward that end, he offers a series of case studies, showing how particular
museums and their collections evolved. Among those who figure prominently are:
Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, the first director of the Louvre; Bernard Berenson,
whose connoisseurship helped Isabella Stewart Gardner found her museum in
Boston; Ernest Fenollosa, who assembled much of the Asian art collection now in
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Albert Barnes, the distinguished collector of
modernist painting; and Richard Meier, architect of the J. Paul Getty museum.
Carrier's erudite consideration of what the art museum is and has been provides
the basis for understanding the radical transformation of its public role now
underway. Brief Description: Traces the birth, evolution, and decline of public
art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion.
This work suggests ideas and inspiration may be found in mass entertainment such
as popular music and movies. It illuminates the public role of art museums by
describing the ways they influence how art is seen.
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HART SHARP VIDEO 670406 STOLEN DVD MOVIE:
In 1990, in the early morning hours after St. Patrick s day, thieves disguised
as policemen gained access into Boston s Isabella Stewart Gardner museum and
successfully executed the largest art heist in modern history. Among the
thirteen priceless works stolen was Vermeer's The Concert one of only 35 of the
masters surviving works. To date, not a single work has been recovered. Stolen
is a full exploration of this unusual crime and the fascinating, disparate
characters involved: from the 19th century Grand Dame Isabella Gardner to the
17th century Dutch masters to a 21st century terrorist organization with a
penchant for stealing Vermeers. At the heart of the film, is the unlikely hero
Harold Smith, the renowned art detective. Stolen follows Mr. Smith as he pursues
the mystery of the stolen works. Despite his lifetime battle with skin cancer,
the cunning and witty Smith has made this case his personal obsession, working
with what hope remains. With Mr. Smith as a guide Stolen journeys into the
mysterious and surreal world of stolen art and examines the many possibilities
as to where the art might be. Interwoven with Smith's investigation are noted
contemporary authors discussing the power of Vermeer's work, as well as
collector Isabella Stewart Gardner's turn-of-the-century correspondence (read by
Blythe Danner) with her advisor Bernard Berenson (read by Campbell Scott.) These
subplots give the film a larger context and help illuminate just what the world
has lost. Stolen brings the audience on a journey to understand not just a crime
but also the nature of beauty itself its fragility and its power. System
Requirements: Run Time: 90 mins Format: DVD MOVIE
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Ladies and Not So Gentle Women:
A quartet of prominent trailblazing eccentric women whose intertwined lives span
a century and open a new window on the age they helped to shape
Ladies and Not-So-Gentle Women, a biography in the tradition of Blanche
Wiesen Cook's Eleanor Roosevelt, takes us from Edith Wharton's Gilded Age
New York City to Hemingway's expatriate Paris and occupied France during World
War II with four friends and lovers whose eclectic, extraordinary achievements
have been overshadowed by recent attention to their male counterparts.
Elizabeth Marbury, with clients like Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw,
pioneered as a theatrical/literary agent. Her companion, Elsie de Wolfe, added
interior design to the minuscule list of jobs at which a woman could make a
living and still be a lady. Anne Vanderbilt, plagued by personal tragedy, worked
for the poor, the sick, the addicted, and the imprisoned, and was celebrated for
her World War I military hospital in France. The daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan,
Anne marched in the Triangle Shirtwaist Strike picket lines and built residences
for working women. This delicious, gossipy group portrait is studded with
anecdotes of their like-minded contemporaries--Edith Wharton, Ethel Barrymore,
Eleanor Roosevelt, and many more--and with such legends as Henry Adams, Bernard
Berenson, and Henry James. Never has the revolutionary era from the 1850s to the
1950s, that propelled America to world power, been seen through such an
intimate, vivid, and realistic lens.
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Duveen: A Life in Art:
Meryle Secrest, biographer of Kenneth Clark ( Riveting . . . enthralling - Wall
Street Journal) and Bernard Berenson ( A remarkable tour de force -Sir Harold
Acton), brings all her exceptional gifts to the story of Lord Duveen of Millbank.
Her book is the first major biography in more than fifty years of the supreme
international art dealer of the twentieth century and the first to make use of
the enormous Duveen archive that spans a century and has, until recently, been
kept under lock and key at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The story begins with
Duveen pere, a Dutch Jew immigrating to Britain in 1866, establishing a business
in London, going from humble beginnings in an antiques shop to a knighthood
celebrating him as one of the country's leading art dealers. Duveen pere could
discern an Old Master beneath layers of discolored varnish. He perfected the
chase, the subterfuges, the strategies, the double dealings. He had an uncanny
ability to spot a hidden treasure. It was called the Duveen eye. His son,
Joseph, grew up with it and learned it all-and more . . . Secrest tells us how
the young Duveen was motivated from the beginning by the thrill of discovery;
how he ascended, at twenty-nine, to (de facto) head of the business; how he
moved away from the firm's emphasis on tapestries and Chinese porcelains toward
the more speculative, more lucrative, more exciting business of dealing in Old
Masters. We see a demand for these paintings growing in America, fueled by the
new squillionaires just at the moment when British aristocrats with great art
collections were losing their fortunes . . . how Duveen's whole career was based
on the simple observation: Europe has the art; America, the money. Secrest shows
how he sold hundreds of masterpieces by Bellini, Botticelli, Giotto, Raphael,
Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Watteau, Velazquez, Vermeer, and Titian, among others,
by convincing such self-made Americans as Morgan, Frick, Huntington, Widener,
Bache, Mellon, and Kress that ownership of great art would ennoble them, and
while waving such huge sums at the already noble British owners that the art
changed hands and all were happy. We discover Duveen's connection to Buckingham
Palace: how when the Prince of Wales became Edward VII his first act was to call
in Duveen Brothers as decorators (something had to be done with the lugubrious
Victorian decor and ghastly tartan hangings); how Duveen supplied the tapestries
and rugs for the coronation ceremonies in Westminster Abbey; and how, in 1933,
he became Lord Duveen of Millbank. We learn about the controversies in which he
became embroiled and about his legendary art espionage (a network of hotel
employees spied on his clients to discover their tastes). Duveen was as generous
as he was acquisitive, giving away hundreds of thousands of pounds to British
institutions (the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the British
Museum-including rooms to house the Elgin Marbles), organizing
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