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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mazaroff, Stanley.

Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson : collector and connoisseur / Stanley Mazaroff.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9512-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-8018-9512-X (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Walters, Henry, 1848–1931. 2. Berenson, Bernard, 1865–1959. 3. Art—Collectors and collecting—United States—Biography. 4. Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.) I. Title.

N5220.W43M39 2010

709.2′273—dc22

[B]     2009037378

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Frontispiece: Henry Walters around 1908 at the age of sixty (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland); Bernard Berenson around 1909 at the age of forty-four (Villa I Tatti, Firenze)

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