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...Tatti center was bequeathed to Harvard in 1959 by art critic and connoisseur Bernard Berenson ’1887, according to Connors. Villa I Tatti offers fellowships to scholars in the “early phase of their careers” for up to about a decade after they earn their doctoral degrees to allow them to pursue independent research...
...Miracles happen to those who believe in them,” Bernard Berenson, class of 1887, once said. And surely he must have believed in them. Though he began his life as a displaced Lithuanian immigrant, Berenson wound up a regent in the court of his own choosing. While he lived, Berenson was the chief diplomat of Italian Renaissance Art throughout the world. Considered a scholar of the highest order—though the insights of history have raised questions about his dealings in the art world—Berenson was friendly with and respected by the foremost literati...
...some, a man who bothers to paint a blade of grass is an anachronism who must have been born in the previous century. The late Bernard Berenson, going on guesswork, believed that Wyeth was dead ("What a pity America has starved its painters," he murmured). No foreign museums or collectors have ever bought his work...
...There were other editors on the review where it was impossible to have a civilized political discussion without turning into a screaming match,” said Berenson. “He was one of the liberal editors of the review that I had the best relationship with. He had a little bit of world-wise sense to him that allowed him to stay above the fray...
...don’t think any of us would say that we were shocked that he is where he is today,” said Berenson, recalling a parody issue of the Law Review that spoofed Obama’s semi-celebrity status and alluded to a possible political future...