DOI Heft:
No. 71 (february 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19231#0061
Studio-Talk
one of which is a protest' against mechanical
designs without significance. The members seek
to diverge from the beaten track of conventional
patterns, and to exploit their originality by intro-
ducing decorations which shall be characteristic of
the contents of the book to be bound. The Guild
also favours leather bindings as opposed to cloth,
with a view to durability. Its motto is a pecu-
liarly significant one, "Laws die, Books never."
Among the many exhibitions that have been
held in London during this century, the show of
pictures and drawings by Rembrandt which has
been arranged at Burlington House will long be
remembered as one of the most important and
impressive. Rarely have art lovers in this country
had so valuable an opportunity of studying a
comprehensive series of entirely representative
works by a master who has scarcely an equal in the
history of art; and, with the one exception of the great
exhibition organised at Amsterdam last autumn,
it may be questioned whether any such attempt
to present adequately the amazing achievement
of Rembrandt has been made before. Great
Britain is peculiarly well circumstanced for the
arrangement of a collection of this nature, for by
British collectors is held a large majority of the
canvases which this artist painted, and much that
is in their possession is of the finest possible quality.
How ample is the available material, and how
commanding is its excellence, can be well judged
by an examination of what the Academy presents.
A hundred and two pictures have been brought
together, summarising judiciously the development
of Rembrandt's splendid power, and showing in a
fashion supremely interesting the varieties of his
expression. With these pictures are more than a
hundred drawings, some the slightest possible
suggestions, others careful and elaborate, that give
a further insight-into his methods.
One of the most persuasive of the pictures is
the large group, The Shipbuilder and his Wife, lent
by the Queen. It is quite an early work, and
suggests very obviously the influence of Franz Hals;
but it is in its quality of vitality, and in its amazing
dignity and force of interpretation, thoroughly
representative of Rembrandt at his best. As he
POTTERY PANEL
BY LEON V. SOLON
S1
one of which is a protest' against mechanical
designs without significance. The members seek
to diverge from the beaten track of conventional
patterns, and to exploit their originality by intro-
ducing decorations which shall be characteristic of
the contents of the book to be bound. The Guild
also favours leather bindings as opposed to cloth,
with a view to durability. Its motto is a pecu-
liarly significant one, "Laws die, Books never."
Among the many exhibitions that have been
held in London during this century, the show of
pictures and drawings by Rembrandt which has
been arranged at Burlington House will long be
remembered as one of the most important and
impressive. Rarely have art lovers in this country
had so valuable an opportunity of studying a
comprehensive series of entirely representative
works by a master who has scarcely an equal in the
history of art; and, with the one exception of the great
exhibition organised at Amsterdam last autumn,
it may be questioned whether any such attempt
to present adequately the amazing achievement
of Rembrandt has been made before. Great
Britain is peculiarly well circumstanced for the
arrangement of a collection of this nature, for by
British collectors is held a large majority of the
canvases which this artist painted, and much that
is in their possession is of the finest possible quality.
How ample is the available material, and how
commanding is its excellence, can be well judged
by an examination of what the Academy presents.
A hundred and two pictures have been brought
together, summarising judiciously the development
of Rembrandt's splendid power, and showing in a
fashion supremely interesting the varieties of his
expression. With these pictures are more than a
hundred drawings, some the slightest possible
suggestions, others careful and elaborate, that give
a further insight-into his methods.
One of the most persuasive of the pictures is
the large group, The Shipbuilder and his Wife, lent
by the Queen. It is quite an early work, and
suggests very obviously the influence of Franz Hals;
but it is in its quality of vitality, and in its amazing
dignity and force of interpretation, thoroughly
representative of Rembrandt at his best. As he
POTTERY PANEL
BY LEON V. SOLON
S1