DOI Heft:
No. 85 (April, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Reviews
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0224
Reviews
"welcome news" (See Melbourne Studio-Talk) hy d. m. meldrum
have not hitherto been rendered easily accessible
to the student. The frescoes and painted pottery
from Corneto, Vulci, Pompeii, and elsewhere are
well chosen and characteristic, whilst the examples
of early Christian art from the catacombs and
churches are equally felicitous. The gradual
evolution of painting from its subordinate position
as a mere adjunct to architecture to that of an
independent art, can be readily traced in this
admirable series of pictures; and, alas, its gradual
decline in Italy during the 17th and 18th
centuries, when the religious zeal which had
produced so many masterpieces was waxing cold,
is equally well brought out, The author expresses
great hopes of a revival in his native land of the
art which made her a leader in Europe for nearly
200 years, and gives a list of modern Italian
painters of talent, many of whom, notably
Segantini, have shown some of the reverent feeling
for truth and beauty which characterised their
great predecessors. The Pittura Italiana is one
of a series of handbooks which would well repay
translation into English, for unfortunately few of
those to whom it would be most useful are likely
to be able to read it in the original.
Gordon Craig's Book of Penny Toys. (London :
Lamley & Co.) Price \os. 6d. net. Mr. Gordon
Craig prefers the old penny wooden toys to the
modern metal ones. He says they have " more
expression" and "more colour," and are "perfect
things in their way." And so he has drawn a
number of them full size in his own archaic
manner, printed them upon a coarse paper, painted
them in their natural colours, and made a book
of them that will please many—both old and
young.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters.
By Elbert Hubbard. (New York and London :
g. P. Putnam's Sons.) Price 6j. A collection of
chatty and most readable essays upon Michael
Angelo, Rembrandt, Rubens, Meissonier, Titian,
Van Dyck, Fortuny, Ary Scheffer, Millet, Joshua
Reynolds, Landseer, and Dore. To those who
desire to know something of the lives and work
of these men, and who have no mind to read the
ponderous and more learned tomes which have
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"welcome news" (See Melbourne Studio-Talk) hy d. m. meldrum
have not hitherto been rendered easily accessible
to the student. The frescoes and painted pottery
from Corneto, Vulci, Pompeii, and elsewhere are
well chosen and characteristic, whilst the examples
of early Christian art from the catacombs and
churches are equally felicitous. The gradual
evolution of painting from its subordinate position
as a mere adjunct to architecture to that of an
independent art, can be readily traced in this
admirable series of pictures; and, alas, its gradual
decline in Italy during the 17th and 18th
centuries, when the religious zeal which had
produced so many masterpieces was waxing cold,
is equally well brought out, The author expresses
great hopes of a revival in his native land of the
art which made her a leader in Europe for nearly
200 years, and gives a list of modern Italian
painters of talent, many of whom, notably
Segantini, have shown some of the reverent feeling
for truth and beauty which characterised their
great predecessors. The Pittura Italiana is one
of a series of handbooks which would well repay
translation into English, for unfortunately few of
those to whom it would be most useful are likely
to be able to read it in the original.
Gordon Craig's Book of Penny Toys. (London :
Lamley & Co.) Price \os. 6d. net. Mr. Gordon
Craig prefers the old penny wooden toys to the
modern metal ones. He says they have " more
expression" and "more colour," and are "perfect
things in their way." And so he has drawn a
number of them full size in his own archaic
manner, printed them upon a coarse paper, painted
them in their natural colours, and made a book
of them that will please many—both old and
young.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters.
By Elbert Hubbard. (New York and London :
g. P. Putnam's Sons.) Price 6j. A collection of
chatty and most readable essays upon Michael
Angelo, Rembrandt, Rubens, Meissonier, Titian,
Van Dyck, Fortuny, Ary Scheffer, Millet, Joshua
Reynolds, Landseer, and Dore. To those who
desire to know something of the lives and work
of these men, and who have no mind to read the
ponderous and more learned tomes which have
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