“The excellent bibliography and the index of artists are additional merits of these exhaustive, original, sumptuous volumes.” Anna B. McMahan.
| + + | Dial. 43: 12. Jl. 1, ’07. 1920w. |
“It is only by comparison with the larger work that this two-volume ‘history of painting’ elicits criticism. There is hardly another work of similar scope that is at once so compact with information and so pleasant to read.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 110w. |
“He seeks the explanation of the painter’s work as a product of the times. Though Dr. Muther has not been the only writer to employ this method in the study of art, it is not the general fashion, and his development of it is conspicuous particularly for the breadth of the field to which he has applied it. The style is, for a book of the kind, unexpectedly spontaneous and free from the pedantic touch.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 31: sup. 51. Ap. ’07. 880w. |
“His book reveals considerable familiarity with a very wide range of art, and may be read with as much advantage as entertainment, if the reader will constantly remain on his guard and take frequent opportunities of testing the author’s statements, especially when they strike him as particularly clever.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 182. Je. 7, ’07. 680w. |
“Dr. Muther’s faults are what seem to us the faults of broad philosophical generalizations based on erroneous or insufficient premises—the faults of a man who would take a large view of things without allowing himself to be hampered by inconvenient or tedious facts, who would, in a word, evolve his camel from his inner consciousness.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 85. Jl. 25, ’07. 2110w. |