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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Roberto Papini papers

Fonds Identifier: BER -9
Scope and Content: The bulk of the collection regards Roberto Papini (RP) and consists of personal papers. A great portion of the material relates to his activity as an architectural historian and as professor at the University of Architecture in Florence. The other significant part of the collection consists of Papini's correspondence. Arranged alphabetically by sender, these records reflect the wide range of relationships Papini maintained with architects and artists during the Fascist period and the...

Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts papers

Fonds Identifier: BER -7
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, photographs and other personal and professional papers of Laurance Roberts and his wife Isabel M. Spaulding. Laurance, Orientalist and museum curator; Assistant Curator of Chinese Art, Brooklyn Museum 1934-1938; Director, 1938-1942; Director American Academy in Rome, 1946-1960; married 1937 Isabel Spaulding (Director, Brooklyn Museum, 1943-1946).