Bernard Berenson, who over a lifetime of connoisseurship, disdained German, American and English academics, just as I avoid market pundits.

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She turned to intimate friends, such as Walter Berry, Henry James and Bernard Berenson, and, in her late 40s, fell into an all-consuming love affair with the dodgy and bisexual Morton Fullerton.

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To coincide with the anniversary, Stolen is screening at film festivals in the US. It interweaves the story of the theft and also of the pursuit of the missing works with the collector Isabella Stewart Gardner's own correspondence with Bernard Berenson, the aesthete and art adviser.

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