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• Winner of National Jewish Book Award (Book of the Year) 2014

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'This book proves to be a remarkably balanced treatment of a profoundly complicated and compelling life.'--Robert Simon, Burlington Magazine --Robert Simon Burlington Magazine (07/01/2014)

An insightful, richly detailed account of Bernard Berenson's brilliant transformation from an immigrant Jew and son of a tin peddler into a connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting and a dealer in secret partnership with Joseph Duveen. With the keen gaze that Berenson brought to a picture, Rachel Cohen analyzes his high-wire act of self-invention against the glittering, aristocratic, anti-Semitic world of art collecting. --Cynthia Saltzman<br><br>

Book of the Week [As] Rachel Cohen, the author of this elegantly written biography. . . .nicely puts it, Berenson was 'a person whose capacity for metamorphosis approached that of a moth.' --Martin Gayford, The Sunday Telegraph --Martin Gayford The Sunday Telegraph (12/08/2013)

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Rachel Cohen is the author of A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Believer, Best American Essays, and many other publications. She teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She keeps a notebook on looking at paintings at http://rachelecohen.com.

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