{"id":3657,"date":"2009-12-05T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2017-03-20T20:11:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:11:24","slug":"an-illuminated-life-bella-da-costa-greenes-journey-from-prejudice-to-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton & Company<\/a>
\nJune 2007
\n592 pages
\n6.6 \u00d7 9.6 in
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-393-05104-9<\/p>\n

Heidi Ardizzone<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of American Studies
\nUniversity of Notre Dame<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Named a New York Times Editor\u2019s Choice.<\/em><\/p>\n

The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society.<\/p>\n

What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan<\/a> hired Belle da Costa Greene<\/a> in 1905 to organize his rare book and manuscript collection, she had only her personality and a few years of experience to recommend her. Ten years later, she had shaped the famous Pierpont Morgan Library<\/a> collection and was a proto-celebrity in New York and the art world, renowned for her self-made expertise, her acerbic wit, and her flirtatious relationships. Born to a family of free people of color, Greene changed her name and invented a Portuguese grandmother to enter white society.<\/strong> In her new world, she dined both at the tables of the highest society and with bohemian artists and activists. She also engaged in a decades-long affair with art critic Bernard Berenson<\/a>. Greene is pure fascination\u2014the buyer of illuminated manuscripts who attracted others to her like moths to a flame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1245,11,459,8,17,6462,20,25],"tags":[1428,1427,1429,1300],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-belle-da-costa-greene","tag-heidi-ardizzone","tag-j-p-morgan","tag-w-w-norton-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52684,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/52684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}