Berenson

Bernard or Bernhard
[bur-nahrd,, burn-hahrd] /ˈbɜr nɑrd,, ˈbɜrn hɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1865–1959, U.S. art critic, born in Lithuania.
Contemporary Examples

For Berenson, the story line from the White House remains fuzzy.
Great Writers Rescue Obama Samuel P. Jacobs December 13, 2010

Historical Examples

Mr. Berenson answers the question thus: “His pictures are the perfect reflex of the Renaissance at its height.”
Giorgione Herbert Cook

In the Capitol is a fresco painting which Mr. Berenson ascribes to our master.
Pintoricchio Evelyn March Phillipps

Mr Berenson ascribes them to Duccio and Fungai respectively.
The Story of Siena and San Gimignano Edmund G. Gardner

Finally, Mr. Berenson, with rare insight proclaimed the conception and the spirit of the picture to be Giorgione’s.
Giorgione Herbert Cook

Mr. Berenson calls attention further to the historical significance of this page from contemporary life and manners.
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools Various

The attribution to Titian is, however, not disputed by the two severest of modern critics, Morelli and Berenson.
Titian; a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter Estelle Hurll

Crowe and Cavalcaselle, supplemented by the writings of Berenson, should be consulted as to this painter.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 6 Various

noun
Bernard 1865–1959, US art historian, born in Lithuania: an authority on art of the Italian Renaissance