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Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson Diane B. Scricca Masters of the dark artsCollecting Italian Renaissance paintings during America's Gilded Age was fraught with uncertainty, about both the true identity of the artists and the conflicting interests of dealers. In no other relationship is this more evident than that of Henry Walters, founder of the legendary Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and Bernard Berenson, the era's preeminent connoisseur of Italian Renaissance paintings. Stanley Mazaroff tells the intriguing story of