+ Sat. R. 102: 522. O. 27, ’06. 140w.
Cartwright, Julia (Mrs. Henry Ady). Raphael. *75c. Dutton.
This little manual on the life and art of Raphael is the fourteenth volume in “The popular library of art.” The author tells about the “birth of Raphael and his life and studies at Perugia, Florence and Rome. She describes his Madonnas, the Vatican Stanze, his portraits of contemporaries, his work as architect and decorator, and his cartoons, the last of which, she says, ‘mark the final stage of Raphael’s artistic development.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mrs. Ady seems to have been helped by the rigid limitations of space to give us her very best. The essential acts of Raphael’s life and art could not have been stated more concisely. Nor has the necessary compression of the material made for dullness.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 690. N. 18. 410w.
“Within its limited compass, a singularly complete account of the character and development of Raphael’s work. She is of course thoroughly familiar with modern critical opinion, and as far as it goes her work is exact and scholarly.”
+ + Dial. 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.
“The volume is a worthy successor to its forerunners.”
+ Nation. 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 90w. N. Y. Times. 11: 162. Mr. 17, ’06. 250w.