Three valuable handbooks on great portraits and Madonnas of the world. Printed in beautiful type, on heavy antique paper with broad margins, and daintily bound in buckram of special weave, with title-design stamped in gold. Each book contains about 80 pages 8 × 11 inches in size, including twenty exquisite full-page reproductions of famous paintings, some of which have rarely been reproduced.
The author, Mr. Philip L. Hale, a son of the late Edward Everett Hale, is himself a painter and art critic of reputation. The text is unique, comprising a critical analysis and comparison of the work of the master painters, not from the too common view-point of a critic who walks the galleries, but from that of a painter, who with brushes in hand is even now working on the same problems those he writes about have worked on. It has all the charm and spontaneity of an informal studio chat; and gives a new and fresh appreciation of art.
Price, Each, Boxed and Postage Prepaid, $1.50
The Madonna
A critical analysis of the way the master painters pictured the Madonna, illustrated with full-page reproductions of the following masterpieces:
Sistine Madonna, Madonna of the Chair, Madonna of the House of Alba, Raphael; Virgin of the Rocks, St. Anne, the Virgin, and Christ-child, Da Vinci; Assumption of the Virgin, Madonna of the Pesaro Family, Madonna with the Cherries, Titian; Virgin adoring the Christ-child, Correggio; Madonna of the Sack, Del Sarto; Immaculate Conception, Murillo; Virgin and Child, Crivelli; Nativity, Correggio; Meyer Madonna, Holbein; Madonna of Castelfranco, Giorgione; Madonna of the Two Trees, Bellini; Vow of Louis XIII., Ingres; Coronation of the Virgin, Botticelli; Madonna and Child with Two Angels, Fra Filippo Lippi; Madonna and Three Dominican Saints, Tiepolo.
Great Portraits: Women
An essay on the painting of women's portraits, illustrated by twenty full-page plates reproducing the following great portraits:
Mona Lisa, Da Vinci; Countess Potocka, Artist Unknown; Mrs. Sheridan, Mrs. Siddons, Gainsborough; Nelly O'Brien, Reynolds; Unknown Princess, Da Vinci; Bust of Unknown Lady, in Louvre; Parson's Daughter, Romney; Sarah Bernhardt, Bastien-Lepage; His Mother, Whistler; Madame Destouches, Ingres; Madame Molé-Raymond, Lebrun; Miss Farren, Lawrence; Shrimp Girl, Hogarth; Madame Récamier, David; Violante, Palma Vecchio; Doña Isabel Corbo de Porcel, Goya; Princess Christina, Holbein; His Daughter Lavinia, Titian; Queen Henrietta, Van Dyck.