A collection of studies published six years ago to which have been added
an essay on Leonardo da Vinci and on the Medallist Niccolo Fiorentino.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 7. S. ’09.
“The book is the most authoritative work on its subject that has
hitherto appeared, and combines with much keen technical criticism a
realization of the personal idiosyncrasies of the artists under review
such as has been rarely achieved by the author’s fellow-countrymen who,
as a general rule, lose sight of the craftsman in their vivisection of
his productions.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 78. Jl. ’09. 180w.
“There is a swarm of loose and occasionally false renderings by the
translator. Professional students know how to use Dr. Bode’s writings.
Others should be warned perhaps that many of his conclusions are of a
tentative and most disputable sort.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 369. Ap. 8, ’09. 420w.
“The critic is independent and at times aggressive, and he has
undoubtedly made here an important and original contribution to the
subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 336. My. 29, ’09. 850w.
“The illustrations are absolutely the next things to having a set of
fine photographs, and the book is full of interest and personal charm
and delightful sentiment. If this book is a little rambling, yet the
stopping-places are all delightful.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 261. Ag. ’09. 400w.
“The book’s only defect is an undue vehemence in criticising other
critics of sculpture.” E. F. Baldwin.
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 597. N. 13, ’09. 160w.
“There is rather too much of Dr. Bode and his opponents in the book, and
too little about certain of the Florentine sculptors: especially about
the greatest of them all, Michelangelo. It need hardly be said, of
course that, taken simply as a series of essays on various aspects of
the subject, the book contains much that is extremely valuable.”
Laurence Binyon.
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 381. S. 25, ’09. 720w.
“Dr. Bode, as we should expect, writes an interesting study of
Florentine sculpture. His knowledge is great, and his views command
respect. We cannot, however, go quite so far as he does when he says
that but for the remains of antique statues left in Italy, the art of
that country would have developed on the same lines as in the north.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 668. Ap. 24, ’09. 450w.
=Bode, Wilhelm.=^{[5]} Great masters of Dutch and Flemish painting; tr.
by Margaret L. Clarke. (Library of art ser.) *$2. Scribner.