“Every one—artist, connoisseur, and critic—who desires to learn the real mission of modern art and comprehend its present status as individually and still more or less nationally expressed should read Prof. Muther’s work.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 349. Je. 1, ’07. 1620w. |
“Americans ... will feel some sense of disappointment, therefore, in not finding more pages devoted to American art in Dr. Muther’s books. Dr. Muther writes with an incisive phrase, far removed from the ponderous, involved style of some of his compatriots.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 550w. |
Muther, Richard. History of painting; tr. from the Germ. and ed. with critical notes by George Kriehn. **$5. Putnam.
7–11026.
An “attempt to explain from the psychology of each period its dominant style and to interpret the works of art as ‘human documents.’” “The work is in two volumes and contains eighty illustrations. It deals with the entire development of European paintings from the ‘downfall of the antique world,’ the fourth century, to the early years of the nineteenth.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A valuable book.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 125. My. ’07. |