Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. Quotes Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Notebook (1892) Florentine painting between Giotto and Michelangelo contains the names of such artists as Orcagna, Masaccio, Fra Filippo, Pollaiuolo, Verrocchio, Leonardo, and Botticelli. ... Forget that they were painters, they remain great sculptors; forget that they were sculptors, and still they remain architects, poets, and even men of science. https://www.google.com/books?id=FYgfAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 1 9780722230077 The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance: With an Index to Their Works 1896 G.P. Putnam's Sons Can any mortal portray himself with words, as perhaps he can with chalk or paint? ... A gifted verbal artist may convey some coherent idea of a person he attempts to portray, but not likely an objective one. Preface (written in 1945) https://books.google.com/books?id=atF9CgAAQBAJ 9781473381209 Sketch for a Self Portrait 26 April 2013 Read Books (reprint of 1949 1st edition) Taste begins when appetite is satisfied. Quoted by Stephen Bayley in The Observer (28 July 2007) External links Bernard Berenson Category:1865 births Category:1959 deaths Category:People from Lithuania Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:Historians from the United States Category:Jews from the United States