“He writes with a warmth of conviction that is stimulating to thought, and with a mastery of his subject which commands attention.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 350w. |
Reinach, Salomon. The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by Florence Simmonds. [**]$2. Scribner.
“A general outline of art from its origin to the present age. It includes art in the polished stone and bronze ages; in Egypt, Chaldea, and Persia; Aegean, Minoan, and Mycenæan art; Greek art before Phidias; Phidias and the Parthenon; Praxiteles, Scopas, and Lysippus; Greek art after Alexander the Great; the minor arts of Greece; Etruscan and Roman art; Christian art in the East and in the West; Romanesque and Gothic architecture; Romanesque and Gothic sculpture; the architecture of the renaissance and modern architecture; the renaissance of Siena and Florence; Venetian painting; Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael—the Milanese Umbrian and Roman schools; Michelangelo and Correggio; the renaissance in Germany; the Italian decadence and the Spanish school; art in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century; the art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France; and art in the nineteenth century. There are nearly six hundred illustrations in the book.”—Bookm.
“Is a clever and valuable rapid sketch written by an authority.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 706. Ap. ‘05. 60w. |
“The translation is fluent and adequate as a whole, though it is occasionally clumsy.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 343. Mr. 18. 490w. |
“The translation before us, in the main, reads well, and the book, as a whole, appears in a very acceptable form. Much may be said in praise of the work and very little against it. The reader immediately becomes fascinated by the style, the independence of thought and judgments by the illuminating touches on periods and individual artists. Taken in its ensemble, it is possibly the best short history of art, or rather the history of the filiation of art schools ever written.” Hugo P. Thieme.
| + + + | Baltimore Sun. : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 490w. |