KUGLER'S HANDBOOK ILLUSTRATED.
THE SCHOOLS OF PAINTING IN ITALY.
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY A LADY, AND EDITED WITH NOTES
BY SIR CHARLES LOCK EASTLAKE,
President of the Royal Academy.
A New Edition. 2 Vols. Post 8vo. 24s.
"We cannot leave this subject (Christian Art, its present state and its prospects), without reverting to Sir C. Eastlake's edition of Kugler's Handbook of Painting, not for the sake of reviewing it,—for it is a work now of established reputation,—but for the purpose of recommending it as being upon the whole by far the best manual we are acquainted with, for every one who, without the opportunity of foreign and particularly Italian travel, desires to make a real study of art. Its method, its chronological arrangement, and its generally judicious criticism, make it most instructive to a learner. We may add that the present edition is enlarged just where the former one needed enlargement, and the Handbook is now far more satisfactory as to the early religious schools than it was before. The edition is beautifully got up, and so profusely and judiciously illustrated by one hundred woodcuts drawn by Scharf, that it would be next to impossible to speak too highly in its praise, even were its matter less valuable and important than it is."—The Ecclesiastic.
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