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...attract broad scholarly interest. In accordance with Berenson’s wishes, his collection of about 120 priceless works of Renaissance art, as well as a few Asian and Islamic masterpieces, remains at the villa. The villa also houses the Berenson archive, with letters to and from the Berensons??€™ 1,400 correspondents, 6,000 letters between Bernard and Mary, their diaries, manuscripts, and other personal records.It is the library, though, which was most beloved by Berenson, who reportedly said that in an afterlife, he would have liked to haunt his library. Today, the Biblioteca Berenson has grown from...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Art Scholar Bequeaths Villa to Harvard | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

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