DOI Heft:
Nr. 117 (December 1902)
DOI Artikel:Reviews
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Reviews
his critics for the most
part have failed to
consider at their
proper worth the
artistic characteristics
of his productions,
apart from their
merely anecdotal
value. In his intro-
duction to this sump-
tuous volume Sir W.
Armstrong has done
a real service to the
memory of the painter
by pointing out in
clear and forcible
language his many
real artistic excel-
lences. "When he
has a story to tell,"
says Sir William, "he
sees it, not only as
action, but also as
hue and colour. He
combines the facul-
ties of the stage-
manager with those
of the decorative
painter. He contrives
to manoeuvre his cha-
racters into positions
which equally suit his
fable and his arab-
esque." Of the
memoir by Mr.
Austin Dobson it
need only be said
that it is all that could
be anticipated from
the pen of so cultured
and charming a writer. We commend this fine Luca and Andrea delta Robbia, and their Suc-
work to the attention of our readers, not only cessors. By Maud Cruttwell. (London: J. M.
on account of the profusion of excellent photo- Dent & Co.)—The fact that Luca della Robbia was
gravure reproductions with which it is illustrated, the inventor of a new process for applying enamel
but also, and even more particularly, because of to terra-cotta ware, whilst it has added much to
the lucidity, the informing value, and the literary his general popularity, has, unfortunately, greatly
excellence of the text. In these days, when so obscured his fame as a sculptor ot the highest
many books about old painters are published rank in marble and bronze, worthy, indeed, to be
which add so little to our general knowledge, and classed with Donatello and Ghiberti. Moreover,
court so rarely our appreciation, it is a veritable the accident that he had two nephews who worked
treat to turn over the leaves of this volume, in in the same direction as himself, with far less
which so many evidences of study and research, success, has led to the attribution to him of many
and such a thorough knowledge and wide apprecia- of their inferior productions. In her richly illus-
tion of its subject are exhibited. trated monograph, marked by the careful research
227
ILLUSTRATION FROM "LUCA AND ANDREA DELLA ROBBIA " (LONDON: J. M. DENT AND CO.)
his critics for the most
part have failed to
consider at their
proper worth the
artistic characteristics
of his productions,
apart from their
merely anecdotal
value. In his intro-
duction to this sump-
tuous volume Sir W.
Armstrong has done
a real service to the
memory of the painter
by pointing out in
clear and forcible
language his many
real artistic excel-
lences. "When he
has a story to tell,"
says Sir William, "he
sees it, not only as
action, but also as
hue and colour. He
combines the facul-
ties of the stage-
manager with those
of the decorative
painter. He contrives
to manoeuvre his cha-
racters into positions
which equally suit his
fable and his arab-
esque." Of the
memoir by Mr.
Austin Dobson it
need only be said
that it is all that could
be anticipated from
the pen of so cultured
and charming a writer. We commend this fine Luca and Andrea delta Robbia, and their Suc-
work to the attention of our readers, not only cessors. By Maud Cruttwell. (London: J. M.
on account of the profusion of excellent photo- Dent & Co.)—The fact that Luca della Robbia was
gravure reproductions with which it is illustrated, the inventor of a new process for applying enamel
but also, and even more particularly, because of to terra-cotta ware, whilst it has added much to
the lucidity, the informing value, and the literary his general popularity, has, unfortunately, greatly
excellence of the text. In these days, when so obscured his fame as a sculptor ot the highest
many books about old painters are published rank in marble and bronze, worthy, indeed, to be
which add so little to our general knowledge, and classed with Donatello and Ghiberti. Moreover,
court so rarely our appreciation, it is a veritable the accident that he had two nephews who worked
treat to turn over the leaves of this volume, in in the same direction as himself, with far less
which so many evidences of study and research, success, has led to the attribution to him of many
and such a thorough knowledge and wide apprecia- of their inferior productions. In her richly illus-
tion of its subject are exhibited. trated monograph, marked by the careful research
227
ILLUSTRATION FROM "LUCA AND ANDREA DELLA ROBBIA " (LONDON: J. M. DENT AND CO.)