Bernard Berenson and the Art of Seduction
● Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade By Rachel Cohen Yale University Press, 344 pages, $18.98 Born Bernhard Valvrojenski in 1865 to a tin-peddling father in the Pale of Settlement, Bernard Berenson transformed himself into one of the most influential connoisseurs of Italian Renaissance art. An aspiring scholar, Berenson wrote a series of…