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LECTURE 2 "Florence"
1h 16m
Florence became a destination somewhat later and attracted a very different kind of visitor, one strongly focused on the merits and aesthetic qualities of Italian Renaissance art and how they might elevate artistic taste in the United States. The city offered not only an extraordinary opportunity to study these historical works, but also to avail themselves of expert opinion via connoisseurs such as Bernard Berenson, an American art critic and historian who lived outside Florence and advised many collectors of the Gilded Age.