The first exhibition of the new academic year and a two-day seminar of University of Florence students highlight the library's growing collection of superb facsimile editions of Italian Renaissance manuscripts.... Read more about Focus on Facsimiles
In an exciting new venture, the Berenson Library is partnering with metaLAB (at) Harvard, a research and teaching unit dedicated to pioneering initiatives in the digital humanities, to create a dynamic, interactive, free-standing database and web portal for the library’s collection of Homeless...
The Morrill Music Library is proud to announce a new acquisition of significance: a volume of fifteen Canto partbooks bound together in an English binding of the early seventeenth century carrying the Tudor rose on front and back.... Read more about Music Library Acquires Fifteen Rare Canto Partbooks
We are delighted to announce that the Berenson Archive has been greatly enriched this year by the addition of the diaries of Bernard Berenson's contemporary, the art collector and fellow Florentine resident Charles Loeser, which were donated by his granddaughter Philippa Calnan.... Read more about Loeser Diaries Donated to the Berenson Library
We are delighted to announce that we have recently completed our multi-year project to catalog and scan over 16,000 photographs representing more than 11,000 “lost” Italian paintings and drawings from the 13th to the 17th centuries (see the description of the Homeless project on our website). Some of these artworks have been destroyed in wars or natural disasters, some have been stolen, and others –...
