Studio: international art (47.1909)

Reviews and Notices

the treasure-trove just named and other evidence,
which points to a fairly general use of silver spoons
in the later Middle Ages, until the country was
visited by the ravages of war. It is a commend-
able feature of the Danish law in relation to
treasure-trove that it encourages the preservation
of such finds in the National Museum, the com-
pensation given to finders being very liberal.

Douris and the Painters of Greek Vases. By
Edmond Pottier, Member of the French Insti-
tute. Translated by Bettina Kahnweiler. (London :
John Murray.) 75-. 6d. net.—Prefaced by a scholarly
note from the able pen of Dr. Jane Harrison, this
excellent translation of M. Pottier’s essay appears
at a very opportune moment, when interest in
antique pictorial art has been intensified by recent
discoveries. The author has a very thorough grip
of classic lore, and in spite of the paucity of
information respecting Douris and his contem-
poraries, he has succeeded in calling up a very
realistic picture of the artist craftsman,
and to describe, as if he had been him-
self an habitue of a Greek workshop, all
the processes employed in the produc-
tion of art pottery. Artists and students
of antiquity will no doubt delight in the
illustrations and detailed descriptions of
the masterpieces of ceramic art, that
reflect the characteristics of the art
paintings produced in the golden age of
Pheidias and Praxiteles; but the book
should also make a strong appeal to
the outside public, much of the work
of Douris and his followers having been
done for the use of the people, giving
scenes from their daily life.

The Architecture of the Renaissance in
Italy. By William J. Anderson. 4th
edition, revised and enlarged. (London :

B. T. Batsford.) 125. 6d. net.—
ally published in 1896 as the outcome of
a series of lectures delivered at the
Glasgow School of Art, this perspica-
cious sketch of the Architectural Re-
naissance in Italy has earned a well-
deserved popularity among students,
especially since its revision and enlarge-
ment in 1898, when in addition to other
improvements there was appended a very
useful chart of the principal Renais-
sance buildings in Italy, tabulated in
chronological and topographical order.

That the work still maintains its popu-
larity is shown by the demand for a

fourth edition, the preparation of which has been
entrusted to Mr. Arthur Stratton of King’s
College, who has found it unnecessary to make
any considerable alterations in the text, but has
materially increased the value of the work to the
student by adding many photographs and measured
drawings. The collotype plates, which are a
unique feature of the book, are also much more
numerous than in previous editions, but in spite
of this large accession of new material the price
of the volume remains the same.

From the office of the Munich weekly journal,
“ Jugend,” we have received a small quarto volume
containing 3,000 black and white reproductions of
pictures by artists of various nationalities (chiefly
German) which have appeared in colours in that
periodical during the past thirteen years. The
reproductions though small (there are nine and
occasionally more to a page), are remarkably
clear. The price of the book in cloth is 3 marks.

TITLE-PAGE OF “AN EHREN UND AN SIEGEN REICH (MAX
HERZIG, VIENNA)

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