| + + — | Outlook. 81: 831. D. 2, ‘05. 940w. |
Mahler, Arthur. Paintings of the Louvre; Italian and Spanish, in collaboration with Carlos Blacker and W: A. Slater. [**]$2. Doubleday.
“A handbook of the Italian and Spanish sections of the celebrated art gallery, and includes also a history of the art of Italy from the early workers in the Byzantine manner to the Renaissance, while the part devoted to the Spanish schools is given up mainly to Velasquez and Murillo. The illustrations show examples of the work of these artists as well as of Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and others.”—N. Y. Times.
“The illustrations are numerous, but too much reduced and too indistinctly printed to do more than remind one how inadequately they represent the originals.”
| — | Acad. 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 340w. | |
| + — | Critic. 47: 475. N. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “The criticism is of the old school, Vasari’s pleasing tales being repeated with an apparent obliviousness of the incredulity into which they have fallen through the researches of such moderns as Berensen, Fry, and others.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 80w. |
“The book, as embodying the latest results of research, is to be relied on. The criticism is unoriginal and often extremely commonplace. It is well arranged, the English is smooth.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 190w. |
“The only charge to be brought against his text is the overstudious avoidance of anything like emphasis. The final chapter on Spanish paintings shares the merits of the others—clearness, simplicity, intelligence.” L. L.