Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters Manuscripts Bursting with over 200 photographs

Bursting with over 200 photographs and illustrations

this book raises the question: Did the talent to promote and publicize a work exceed the skills employed to create that object of worship

biblical translation has shaped how we answer faith’s most enduring questions about the nature of God

all which focus on the high points of drawing in the European tradition—from the Renaissance through the twentieth century—featuring artists such as Rubens

Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters Manuscripts Bursting with over 200 photographsIn Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters, Deborah Parker chronicles the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such positions were held by men. Belle da Costa Greene (18791950) was Pierpont Morgans personal librarian (19081913) and the first Director of the Morgan Library (19241948). In the nearly six hundred letters that Greene sent to art historian Bernard