A Renaissance Life: A Personal View of Bernard Berenson; Realities; 22

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Title:
A Renaissance Life: A Personal View of Bernard Berenson; Realities; 22
Description:
Just three months after the conclusion of his remarkable Civilization series on PTV, Kenneth Clark returns as writer and narrator of this episode, dedicated to his former mentor, the late art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959). The episode was filmed almost entirely at I Tatti, the villa outside Florence at which Berenson lived from 1900 until his death. Renowned as a museum and an art library, it has been bequeathed to Harvard University, where Berenson studied as an undergraduate. And it was to I Tatti that Clark came as a youthful disciple of the art connoisseur. In the words of Clark, Berenson was a man who lived through is eyes and whose ultimate achievement was to abolish all distinctions between art and nature. Berenson was, above all, an aesthete, devoted to art and to nature. These two passions had their essence for him in Italy, the country in which his personal direction became manifest. Born in Lithuania in 1865, he immigrated to Boston at age ten. After attending Harvard University, he made his first European tour in 1887. There, he became an assiduous visitor of museums and was soon a leading judge of the authenticity of Renaissance painting. His connoisseurship grew with the selection of a collection of paintings for the noted Boston hostess Mrs. Jack Gardner. His writings include The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, The Florentine, The Venetian, Sketch for a Self-Portrait, and Aesthetics and History. Clark provides his own reminiscence of Berenson, commenting on his enthusiasm and his personality. He also recalls old BB in a conversation with John Walker, another Berenson disciple and former director of the National Gallery in Washington, and with writer Iris Origo and Baroness Alda Anrep. Realities A Renaissance Life: A Personal View of Bernard Berenson by Kenneth Clark is a co-production of BBC and NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation. Presentation in the United States as made possible through a grant from the Xerox Corporation. NET producer: Kay Chessid. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) 1 hour program
Production company:
Educational Broadcasting Corporation. NET Division
Production company:
British Broadcasting Corporation
Narrator:
Clark, Kenneth
Creator:
Englander, A. A.
Film editor:
Tyrer, Allan
Author:
Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
Producer:
Hearst, Stephen
Producer:
Chessid, Kay
Date:
April 12, 1971
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
Library of Congress
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
Library of Congress > A Renaissance Life: A Personal View of Bernard Berenson > Realities
Subjects:
Fine Arts
Biography
Extent:
01:00:41.005
Link to Item:
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-x34mk66b4n
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