Bernard Berenson and the Twentieth Century Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Appraising Berenson	11
	Berenson and Early Modernism	13
	Berenson as a Theorist	15
	Berenson as a Writer	18
	Characterizing Berenson's Achievement	21
2	Defining Berenson's Modernity	29
	Introduction	31
	The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance	34
	Lorenzo Lotto	39
	Egisto Fabbri and Hermann Obrist	46
	The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance	56
	The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance	70
3	Berenson at the Crossroads	85
	Connoisseurship Versus Criticism	87
	A Sienese Painter of the Franciscan Legend	93
	The North Italian Painters of the Renaissance	97
	"The Decline of Art"	103
	Critical Writing During the Duveen Years	107
4	Berenson's Last Years	113
	The Sage of Settignano	115
	Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts	124
	"Decline and Recovery in the Figure Arts"	135
	The Performing Monkey	142
	The Geometricization of the Individual: Humanism at Risk	152
	Seeing and Knowing	161
	Conclusion	169
	Notes	187
	Bibliography	235
	Index	259