The History of Modern Painting : Revised Edition Continued by the Author to the End of the XIX Century.

The History of Modern Painting : Revised Edition Continued by the Author to the End of the XIX Century. Signed binding by Zaehnsdorf. Four Volumes.

Author: Muther, Richard

4to. (8" x 10") 1907. 4 volumes. Muther, Richard. London / New York: J. M. Dent & co. / E. P. Dutton Co. Half green leather with generous corners, gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine sun faded to an attractive brown with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to gilt framed second compartment, gilt author/vol# to gilt framed third compartment, gilt date at foot. All other compartments double gilt rule framed with heavy gilt floral device centered to each. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. 48 full page color plates, 1000+ black and white in text images.

Richard Muther (1860–1909) was a German critic and historian of art, born at Ohrdruf in Germany. He studied at Heidelberg and at Leipzig, where he took his doctor's degree. In 1895 he became professor of art history at the University of Breslau. He was one of the more prominent German art historians of his time, although he has been described as more popular with the general public than with the art fraternity of his day.[2] The Russian artist Alexandre Benois wrote of Muther's appeal by saying that his ideas, "became common property and permeated the society so much that even the most conservative people started using 'Muther's parlance'". He wrote Geschichte der Malerei (five volumes, 1899–1900); which appeared in English as The history of painting from the fourth to the early nineteenth century (2 volumes, 1907), translated and edited by George Kriehn. In 1907 The history of modern painting (4 volumes) was published in English. He was also the author of books on Leonardo da Vinci (1900), Lucas Cranach (1903), Rembrandt (1904), Francisco Goya (1904), Diego Velázquez (1907), Jean-François Millet (1907) and Gustave Courbet (1908). His Die deutsche Bücher illustration der Gothik und Frührenaissance was later translated into English and published as German book illustration of the Gothic period and the early Renaissance (1460–1530) (1972).

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