The Photograph and Bernard Berenson: The Story of a Collection.

In this essay I explore the history of Bernard Berenson's enormous collection of photographs of art, housed at Villa I Tatti, in Settignano, near Florence (Italy), his former home, now under the auspices of Harvard University. Berenson worked with a number of professional and commercial photographers to capture the unique features of art from various regions (Venice, Florence, Rome) to document not only his specialty of Italian Renaissance art but also archaeological discoveries and art from other periods and places. Berenson's methodology with photographs of works of art from a connoisseur's point of view still serves scholarly and pedagogical interests for art historians around the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]