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Bruno Bearzi papers, 1943-1983

Collection Identifier: BER-42
Content Description:

This collection primarily contains administrative and photographic documentation regarding the activity of bronze conservation and casting conducted by Bruno Bearzi.

Bernard and Mary Berenson papers

Collection Identifier: BER -8
Scope and Contents:

The papers contain for both Mary and Bernard Berenson biographical material, diaries, correspondence, and writings, both published and unpublished. There is also an extensive file of "Berensoniana," writings about Berenson and Villa I Tatti, but excluding reviews of publications. The papers are organized into seven series: I. Biographical, II. Collections, Villa I Tatti, and Harvard, III. Diaries, IV. Correspondence, V. Research and Writings, VI. Berensoniana, and VII. Photographs.

Berenson Library antiquities photograph collection

Collection Identifier: BER-19
Overview:

Includes photographs of Prehistoric, Egyptian, and Classical Antiquities that are part of the Berenson Library core photo collection.

Berenson Library Byzantine art and architecture photograph collection

Collection Identifier: BER-23
Overview:

Includes photographs of Byzantine art and architecture that are part of the Berenson Library core photo collection.

Berenson Library core photograph collection

Collection Identifier: BER-47
Overview:

Includes photographic and photomechanical prints reproducing Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as illuminated manuscripts from various cultures.

Berenson Library non-Italian paintings photograph collection

Collection Identifier: BER-31
Overview:

Includes photographs of British, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Flemish paintings that are part of the Berenson Library core photo collection.

Eve Borsook papers regarding the Florentine flood

Collection Identifier: BER-15
Overview:

The papers include correspondence and documentation related to the rescue of the Florentine cultural heritage damaged by the 1966 flood.

Giorgio Castelfranco papers

Collection Identifier: BER -11
Overview:

Notes, manuscripts, clippings and published articles relating to the research interests of Giorgio Castelfranco, Italian Art Historian and officer of the Italian Fine Arts administration.

Kenneth Clark correspondence

Collection Identifier: BER-16
Overview:

Incoming letters to Kenneth Clark and his wife Jane, with occasional carbon copies of Clark's responses and partial diary from 1934.

Committee to Rescue Italian Art Palazzo Pitti office records

Sub-Fonds Identifier: BER -2
Overview:

Papers from the Palazzo Pitti office of the American Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA), founded to restore cultural heritage damaged by the 1966 Florentine flood, include correspondence, reports, invoices, and photographs related to the organization’s activities.

Committee to Rescue Italian Art Villa I Tatti office records

Sub-Fonds Identifier: BER -3
Overview:

Papers from the I Tatti office of the American Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA), founded to restore cultural heritage damaged by the 1966 Florentine flood, include correspondence, reports, and photographs related to the organization's activities.

Charles Henry Coster photographs of Libya

Collection Identifier: BER-43
Overview:

Photographs of Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic monuments in Libya.

Archibald Creswell photographs

Collection Identifier: BER-45
Overview:

Photograph archive created by architectural historian Archibald Creswell with photos depicting Islamic, Byzantine, and Greco-Roman monuments in Eastern Mediterranean.

Maud Cruttwell papers

Collection — Box: Maud CruttwellIdentifier: BER-32
Overview:

Letters to Lady Ottoline Morrell and writings by Maud Cruttwell.

A. Henry Detweiler photograph collection

Collection Identifier: BER-40
Overview:

Slides, negatives, photographic prints, and notes documenting architecture in central and northern Italy, as well as Henry Detweiller's research in architectural history.

Andrea Francalanci papers

Collection Identifier: BER-6
Overview:

The collection includes papers documenting the career of Andrea Francalanci, Florentine dancer, musician, teacher, choreographer and scholar specialized in Italian Renaissance dance.

Giannino Marchig glass plate collection, 1939-1949

Collection Identifier: BER-48
Content Description: The collection includes 1342 negatives: glass plates: b w; various sizes, most 21 x 27cm and 13 x 18cm Scope and Contents The collection comprises 1342 black-and-white negatives on silver gelatin glass plates taken by an unidentified photographer between the early 1930s, when GM devoted himself to conservation, and the end of 1949 when he left Florence and moved to Switzerland. Before leaving Florence, GM donated his glass plate collection...

Frederick Hartt papers

Collection Identifier: BER -4
Overview:

Notes and drafts for writings, correspondence, and clippings by Frederick Hartt.

Derek Hill photograph collection

Collection — Box: Hill 1Identifier: BER-38
Overview:

The collection includes black-and-white photographs taken by Derek Hill depicting Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman monuments in Turkey and Syria.

Charles Loeser notebook and diaries

Collection — Box: Loeser 1Identifier: BER-17
Overview:

Calendars, notebook and address books of Charles Alexander Loeser.

Fosco Maraini photographs of Sicily

Collection — Box: Coster/Maraini 1Identifier: BER-46
Overview:

The collection includes photographs taken by Fosco Maraini in various locations in Sicily.

Emilio Marcucci photograph collection

Collection Identifier: BER-24
Overview:

Includes drawings, plans, photographs, and correspondence recording Emilio Marcucci's architectural projects and interests. The collection offers an important documentation of the revival of Gothic and Renaissance styles in 19th-century architecture in Italy.

Frederick Mason Perkins photographs and papers

Collection Identifier: BER-20
Overview:

Photographs, correspondence, notes, and other records. Most photos were sent to Frederick Mason Perkins by collectors and art dealers and they reproduce Italian art.

William Mostyn-Owen papers concerning I Tatti

Collection Identifier: BER -12
Overview:

The collection includes the correspondence of Bernard Berenson and others in the circle of Berenson's friends and close associates to William Mostyn-Owen during his stay at I Tatti and after. It also includes some papers regarding I Tatti and Berenson.

Nancy Ward Neilson photograph collection

Collection Identifier: BER-33
Overview:

Includes auctions catalogs clippings and photographs reproducing paintings and drawings.