For Art Lovers: Video to Accompany Bernard Berenson Biography

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Nov. 6, 2013 - PRLog -- (Check out the Video at the end of release)

Rachel Cohen's brillant biography on Bernard Berenson, recently released as the 12th book in the Jewish Lives Series, is receiving rave reviews!

“Written with intelligence and understanding and often with impressive psychological insight…A thoughtful, short biography.”—Walter Kaiser, New York Review of Books

"Cohen draws a psychological portrait of a man guided by passionate aesthetic ideals and tortured by the compromises in the world of commerce that he felt compelled to make.... If you live in an American city, there's a good chance that you can go to a museum today and see an exquisite Sienese Madonna, or a Venetian Holy Family, or a Florentine portrait. You have Berenson—and his collector-acolytes—to thank." --Hugh Eakin, Wall Street Journal

An insightful, richly detailed account of Bernard Berenson’s brilliant transformation from an immigrant Jew and son of a tin peddler into a connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting and a dealer in secret partnership with Joseph Duveen. With the keen gaze that Berenson brought to a picture, Rachel Cohen analyzes his high-wire act of self-invention against the glittering, aristocratic, anti-Semitic world of art collecting.”—Cynthia Saltzman

So who was Bernard Berenson and what was his role in the history of art collecting?

Find out--Watch the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ywq03qUwiA