Details

Subject(s)

• Anthony of Egypt, Saint approximately 250-355 or 356—Art—Photographs [Browse]
• Jesus Christ—Passion—Art—Photographs [Browse]
• Tatti, Francesco de active 1512-1527 [Browse]
• Jesus Christ—Nativity—Art—Photographs [Browse]
• Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint—Visitation—Art—Photographs [Browse]
• Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint—Annunciation—Art—Photographs [Browse]
• Catherine of Alexandria, Saint—Art—Photographs [Browse]
• Anthony of Padua, Saint 1195-1231—Art—Photographs [Browse]
• Michael (Archangel)—Art—Photographs [Browse]
• Angels in art—Photographs [Browse]
• Saints in art—Photographs [Browse]
• Painting, Italian—Italy, Northern [Browse]
• Painting, Italian—Italy—Lombardy—16th century [Browse]

Photographer

• Sigismondi, Roberto, 1952- [Browse]
• Cooper, A. C. [Browse]
• Frick Art Reference Library [Browse]

Artist

• Tatti, Francesco de, active 1512-1527 [Browse]

Related name

• Berenson Library. Fototeca [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Photographs [Browse]
• Art [Browse]

Arrangement

Filed with North Italian School and organized by medium: paintings and drawings. Photographic and photomechanical prints are housed in storage boxes containing folders for paintings and for drawings arranged alphabetically by location and/or repository, generally following the order established by Bernard Berenson in his Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places: Central Italian and North Italian schools (1968). At the end of each file there may be folders titled "homeless and for sale," and "except photographs." The latter contains documentary material in the form of clippings, notes and printed reproductions.

Biographical/​Historical note

Part of a collection now numbering about 300,000 photographs that was started by Bernard Berenson, art historian and leading authority on Italian Renaissance painting, between the 1880s and his death in 1959. The bulk of the collection focuses on Italian painting and drawing from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries and continues to be developed through the acquisition of new materials and through photographic campaigns. Of special note are ca. 3,000 large-format photographs. The collection also includes smaller sections on Renaissance sculpture and architecture, medieval painting, manuscript illumination, archaeology, Classical and Byzantine art and architecture, other European schools, Islamic art, and East and South Asian art.

Notes

• Title devised by staff of the Berenson Library.
• The Library continues to add to the file.
• Picture media may include: gelatin silver prints, albumen prints, carbon prints and photomechanical prints.
• Artist file may include full views, details, before and after restoration views. Most photographic prints have inscriptions on verso that may identify provenance, exhibition history, related works, other attributions, bibliography, location, dimensions, and technique of the work of art reproduced. Inscriptions or stamps on verso may also identify the author, date, or provenance of the photograph.

OCLC

795013873

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