Collecting Italian Renaissance paintings during America’s Gilded Age was fraught with risk because of the uncertain identities of the artists and the conflict

Surprisingly, the story of how William Walters and his son Henry created one of the finest privately assembled museums in the United States has not been told."-

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Controversy swirls around Bernard Berenson today as it did in his middle years, before and between two world wars. Who was this man, this supreme connoisseur of