{geni:about_me} Bernard Berenson moved to Florence in 1900, his study and work in Italian Renaissnace art supported by his patron, Isabella Stuart Gardner of Boston. Over the course of the following years, Berenson procured on herbehalf many of the works of art now displayed in the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston. The villa which Berenson purchased as his home was Villa I Tatti. Upon his death, this was left to Harvard Univeristy, which maintainsit as a reserach center for the study of Italian Renaissance art.