ABOUT MARY BERENSON
"In the evening I gave my lecture of "How to enjoy the Old Masters" to about 400 girls and 50 teachers."
Mary Berenson (Philadelphia, PA 1864-1944 Florence, Italy) was an art historian, critic, and wife of Italian Renaissance art historian Bernard Berenson. While she worked in the shadow of her more renowned husband, Mary is now credited with having had significant influence over his scholarly work and having been instrumental in developing the rich social circle of intellectuals, artists and art collectors that surrounded the couple during the years spent at their residence Villa I Tatti in Florence - now The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Mary Berenson’s archive, a rich collection of letters, personal diaries, literary journals and notes, both published and unpublished, is part of the Bernard and Mary Berenson Papers (1880-2002) held at the Biblioteca Berenson at the Villa I Tatti. - (text from semlab.io) -