Contents

• 1. Appraising Berenson
• Berenson and Early Modernism
• Berenson as a Theorist
• Berenson as a Writer
• Characterizing Berenson’s Achievement
• 2. Defining Berenson’s Modernity
• The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance
• Lorenzo Lotto
• Egisto Fabbri and Hermann Obrist
• The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance
• The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance
• 3. Berenson at the Crossroads
• Connoisseurship Versus Criticism
• A Sienese Painter of the Franciscan Legend
• The North Italian Painters of the Renaissance
• "The Decline of Art"
• Critical Writing During the Duveen Years
• 4. Berenson’s Last Years
• The Sage of Settignano
• Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts
• "Decline and Recovery in the Figure Arts"
• The Performing Monkey
• The Geometricization of the Individual: Humanism at Risk
• Seeing and Knowing