“The style confuses one as to the usefulness of the book. It is a literary style, whereas it ought to be a scientific style. This gives it a vague and indirect air, where one has a right to expect directness and authority.” Porter Lander MacClintock.
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* Cole, Timothy. Old Spanish masters engraved by Timothy Cole, with historical notes by Charles H. Caffin and comments by the engraver. **$6. Century.
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This work continues the series of reproductions of paintings by old masters including Old Italian masters, Old Dutch and Flemish masters, and Old English masters. The enduring value of Mr. Cole’s engravings has been faithfully imparted to these reproductions while the text furnishes an interesting story of Spanish art. “Starting at the moment when Italian art was entering upon the superb achievements of the high renaissance, it survived the latter’s decay, reached its own independent climax in the seventeenth century, and received a supplementary chapter at the end of the eighteenth. As a connected narrative it may be said to have begun with the birth of a United States in 1492.”
“The thirty-one examples of his work contained add fresh lustre to his fame. Though not all of equal excellence, they are as beautiful artistically as anything he has previously done, and some of them are quite unsurpassed. Mr. Cole’s skill with the graver shows no sign of diminution. His line is still as marvellously varied, as virile and sympathetically expressive, as ever.” Frederick W. Gookin.
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| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 80w. |
“Mr. Cole’s illustrations of [Velasquez, Ribera, and Zurburan] ... are too suave, but he has certainly done the world of art a service in his other reproductions.”
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