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was the first to suggest Botticelli���s authorship.7 Horne, however, believed that all three fragments were copies after a lost wall painting by Botticelli in the Palazzo Vecchio mentioned in the Codex Magliabechiano.8 Berenson agreed but Yashiro���s attribution led Berenson to change his mind.9 Since that time there has been consensus over Botticelli���s authorship.10 Horne and subsequent art historians have identified a relationship between the fragments and Botticelli���s unfinished Adoration of the Magi of c. 1505 in the Uffizi. However as Schulze-Altcappenberg notes, they were often mistakenly taken as a cartoon for the latter although there is no sign that they were used to transfer the design. Apart from this, there are many differences between the fragments and the unfinished Uffizi Adoration, which Horne, Herbert Percy (1864-1916) English aristocrat and collector who after being asked to write a small book on Sandro Botticelli exchanged London���s upper class with Florentine archives and produced what is widely considered the most scientific monograph ever published, still today setting standards. It remains the basis for research on Botticelli. He took a special interest in Early Renaissance art, furniture and household objects and arranged a lavish collection that he donated to the Italian State, together with the palace where he had collected them. Berenson, Bernard (1865-1959) American art historian, whose studies in the Renaissance made him a major figure in art attribution. His notion of authenticity ultimately led to the establishment of a market for ���Old Master Paintings���. At a time when Renaissance art became more fashionable, he positioned himself as the pre-eminent authority for US collectors of the early 20th century, most notably Isabella Stewart Gardner. In 1903 he published ���The Drawings of the Florentine Painters���, which was to become his most influential book. His residence near Florence, which has been called ���I Tatti��� is now the Center for Renaissance Studies of Harvard University. 6 HYLAND