Per almost sixty years, it was the home of the famous American art critic and historian Bernard Berenson who, together with his wife Mary, profoundly transformed it according to his taste and aesthetic ideals.
Upon Berenson’s death in 1959, the Villa I Tatti, along with the entire property, was donated by the founder’s will to the university where he had completed his studies, Harvard, becoming from 1961 the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
Villa I Tatti can be visited through a path that includes the most significant rooms and the garden designed and created for Berenson by the English architect Cecil Pinsent, an important example in the history of twentieth-century gardens inspired by the Renaissance.
Information on the “Berenson” Collection – Villa I Tatti
di Vincigliata, 26 Florence
