Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
POPE.
HURLL, E.M.
Greek Sculpture.
Houghton. .75
The Riverside Art Series contains twelve small volumes on Ancient and
Modern Art, of which four only are included in this limited list. The
very satisfactory illustrations are taken from photographs, and the
major part of each book is devoted to interpretations of the pictures.
This volume contains sixteen examples of Greek marbles, with an
introduction, which includes other information, on some
characteristics of Greek sculpture.
Greek sculpture can be sympathetically understood only by
catching something of the spirit which produced it. One must
shake off the centuries and regard life with the childlike
simplicity of the young world: one must give imagination free
rein.--_Introduction._
HURLL, E.M.
Michelangelo.
Houghton. .75
We are given fifteen pictures by this great man, and his portrait. (p. 208)
There is an introduction on Michelangelo's character as an artist, an
outline table of the principal events in his life, and a list of some of
his famous Italian contemporaries, with other information.
This is the rugged face
Of him who won a place
Above all kings and lords;
Whose various skill and power
Left Italy a dower
No numbers can compute, no tongue translate in words.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
So stood this Angelo
Four hundred years ago;
So grandly still he stands,
Mid lesser worlds of art,
Colossal and apart,
Like Memnon breathing songs across the desert sands.
CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH.
HURLL, E.M.
Raphael.
Houghton. .75
This volume contains a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait
of himself by the master, an introduction on Raphael's character as an
artist, an outline table of the principal events in his life, and a
list of some of his famous contemporaries, as well as other
information.
All confessed the influence of his sweet and gracious nature,
which was so replete with excellence and so perfect in all the
charities, that not only was he honored by men, but even by the
very animals, who would constantly follow his steps, and always
loved him.
VASARI.
HURLL, E.M. (p. 209)
Tuscan Sculpture.
Houghton. .75
This book comprises sixteen examples of fifteenth-century work, with
an introduction, also containing other information, on some
characteristics of Tuscan sculpture of this period.
The Italian sculptors of the earlier half of the fifteenth
century are more than mere forerunners of the great masters of
its close, and often reach perfection within the narrow limits
which they chose to impose on their work. Their sculpture shares
with the paintings of Botticelli and the churches of Brunelleschi
that profound expressiveness, that intimate impress of an
indwelling soul, which is the peculiar fascination of the art of
Italy in that century.
WALTER PATER.