Mary Berenson and <i>The Guide to the Italian Pictures at Hampton Court</i>

Abstract

<em>The Guide to the Italian Pictures at Hampton Court</em> is the first book published in 1894 by Mary Berenson under the pseudonym of Mary Logan. In the same year Bernard Berenson published <em>The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance</em>, his first important contribution to connoisseurship. This article aims to demonstrate that the two works, as well as other writings of the same period, were the result of a collaboration between the two art historians, testified by letters, diaries, and annotations kept in the Berenson Papers held at I Tatti, Florence.