IRIS Consortium

The IRIS libraries

Berenson Library - Villa I Tatti
Libraries of the Gallerie degli Uffizi
Library of the Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Library of the Dutch University Institute for Art History
Library of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento
The «U. Procacci» Library - Opificio delle Pietre Dure
The Leonardiana Library - Vinci
Library of the Fondazione Rossana e Carlo Pedretti

News The IRIS Catalog in WorldCat

From July, 2015 the bibliographic data of the IRIS Consortium catalog (records representing: monographs, journals, art auction catalogs, articles, article-level analyzed journals and congress proceedings) are present in OCLC's WorldCat, searchable through the discovery service Art Discovery Group Catalogue. This group catalogue offers an art-focused research experience within the WorldCat environment

The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

Berenson Library - Villa I Tatti

via di Vincigliata, 26 - 50123 Florence (Italy)
tel. +39 055 603251 - fax +39 055 603383
e-mail: library@itatti.harvard.edu
http://www.itatti.harvard.edu/
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM. Closed on Italian national holidays and other holidays observed by Villa I Tatti, the month of August, Christmas holidays and during on-site conferences and lectures
Access: open to researchers holding the Master's degree, or its equivalent; exceptions can be made upon written request. Readers should present a letter of introduction; university professors a document of faculty identification
Readers' services: reference, on-site consultation (no loans), limited photocopying, microfilm/microfiche reader/printer

The Biblioteca Berenson is the library of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti. The Center, a post-doctoral research institute devoted to advanced study in all areas of the Renaissance in Italy, came into being in 1961 as the result of the donation to the University by Bernard Berenson, the eminent art historian and critic, of the villa along with his important collection of books, photographs, and works of art. Although Berenson's library gave primary emphasis to Italian art, it was also celebrated for its extraordinary range, which encompassed the whole of Mediterranean civilization, including classical antiquity and the Islamic world, as well as other selected subjects in Middle Eastern and Oriental Studies. The scope of the library has been expanded since Berenson's death with substantial additions in all areas relevant to late Medieval and Renaissance scholarship, including history, literature, history of science, and musicology.

Patrimony
Berenson Library
The library is composed of ca. 180,000 volumes, of which 1,324 are works published before 1800, ca. 2,500 periodicals of which 622 are currently received, ca. 15,000 art auction catalogs, ca. 12,000 works on microforms.
The Morrill Music Library is composed of ca. 10,000 titles, including a rich collection of printed music scores and early music manuscripts on microfilm, and ca. 1,500 sound recordings.
The Asian and Islamic Collection, focusing on the fine arts and archaeology, is composed of ca. 3,500 titles.
Berenson Fototeca
This famous photographic archive is composed of over 300,000 photographs whose main focus is Italian painting, 1300-1550.
Archivio Berenson
The Archivio Berenson preserves the correspondence, personal papers, and manuscripts of Bernard and Mary Berenson. Later donations include the archives of Giorgio Castelfranco, Andrea Francalanci,Frederick Hartt, Giuseppe Marchini, Emilio Marcucci, Roberto and Livia Papini, and Valeria Piacentini.

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Berenson Library - Villa I Tatti

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