Bernard Berenson : a life in the picture trade / Rachel Cohen.

" Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed himself into the world's most renowned expert on Italian Renaissance paintings, the ow...

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Main Author: Cohen, Rachel, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Series:Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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