Apollo : an illustrated manual of the history of art throughout the ages / by S. Reinach ... from the French, by Florence Simmonds.

  • Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Apollo : an illustrated manual of the history of art throughout the ages / by S. Reinach ... from the French, by Florence Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE two. But there is scarcely anything touching the Middle Ages and modern times even in the largest works. I have had to build up a complete bibliography, and I am sure it will prove useful. After careful consideration, I deliberately excluded all works bearing rather upon archaeology than on art-history. I have also excluded, with few exceptions, all books and articles published before 1880, and more especially large and expensive volumes, only to be found m important libraries. On the other hand, I have freely quoted good popular works and articles in reviews, particularly those of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, which has a wide circulation, may be pur- chased in single numbers, and has no good indices. If my text appeals primarily to beginners and to the leisured classes, I may hope that even the most highly educated will be able to glean in the bibliographies ; they will also find there references to many works and artists which I have omitted to mention, or have only mentioned in passing in the text, being anxious to avoid a monotonous enumera- tion of proper names. The title Apollo reminds my readers that this book is intended to be a companion volume to Minerva, an introduction to the Greek and Latin classics published by me in 1889, and still maintaining its popularity after four large editions. 1 hope that Apollo may share the good fortune of his sister, and that by disseminating the principles of art-history, he may gam new adherents for that antique Wisdom, that Minerva of the Acropolis, which, far from teaching us to neglect, the study of mediaeval and modern art will help us to enjoy more perfectly. S. REINACH. ROMAN ALTAR OF THE FIRST CENTURY. (Museum, Arles.)