| + − | Nation. 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 1040w. | |
| Sat. R. 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 270w. |
Seymour, Frederick H. A. Siena and her artists. *$1.50. Jacobs.
7–38017.
A dissertation upon Sienese art as exemplified in her architecture, sculpture and painting. “General Seymour does not write as a specialist. He eschews technical language, and contents himself with setting down in simple terms the impressions produced upon him by study of the works of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the Lorenzetti, Taddeo di Bartolo, and their disciples and successors. It is interesting to note, from the records of these impressions, how strong an appeal to the modern mind may be made by an art which has deliberately adhered to a set of rigid conventions, if only it possesses the fundamental qualities of beauty and sincerity.” (Ath.)
“A book for the amateur—yes! Unimportant, but redeemed by enthusiasm and headlong interest in the subject.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 673. Je. 15, ’07. 310w. |
“The unpretending volume before us contains nothing for the scholar or the art-critic, but it will be welcome to the ordinary traveller visiting Siena for the first time, and desiring counsel as to how he may most profitably spend his leisure there.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 412. O. 5. 440w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 60w. |
“Another book which will be useful to the visitor to Italy who wishes for criticisms of pictures not too learned or technical.”