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...BIBLE IN ART (239 pp.; Phaidon; $8.50) shares only occasionally Chagall's restless habitat between ecstasy and agony. It is a spectrum of art, inspired by Old Testament themes, that begins with paintings from the Roman catacombs and covers more than 14 centuries before it comes to rest with the all but serene Biblical painting of Rembrandt. The contrasts are fascinating: between the somber faith of the Spaniards and the Gallic directness of the French, the controlled warmth of the Italians and the austere faith of the Germans. It is a brilliant sampling that shows, among other things...
...Giovanni breathed in all this brightness and richness like the air, and almost as naturally began painting pictures of his own. Now, in a handsome book to be published next week (Giovanni Bellini, Phaidon, Oxford; $6.50), a large part of Bellini's work has been spread out for those who want to see the dawn of the Renaissance in Venice...
...last Austrian refugees to escape from Nazified Vienna was the Phaidon Press. The most distinguished popular-priced art book publisher in Europe, the Phaidon Press was spirited by the Oxford Press to London which now distributes Phaidon books in the U.S. In the U.S. Phaidon has issued 27 first-rate art books. Last week it added a 28th...
Inspired Vacuity. The Phaidon Velazquez reproduces 13 of the painter's immortalizations of his royal master's vacuous stare, massy chin and handlebar mustachios which at night he kept in perfumed leather cases. There is also an inspired side show of infantas, royal dwarfs, idiots, buffoons and a little gallery of Velazquez' early, almost photographic genre pictures done in his precourt days when Velazquez used to brag: "I would rather be the first of the vulgar painters than the second of the refined ones." In strong contrast are a number of the passionless religious paintings of which...
Last week the real Leonardo, in all his masterly diversity, was better represented at popular prices than he ever has been before. Phaidon Press, formerly of Vienna and now of London, published a crown-folio-size book, Leonardo da Vinci, which was first-page art news for its broad inclusiveness, handsome reproduction, excellent taste and $4.50 pricing.* Included with the book's full gallery of Leonardo's paintings, drawings, mechanical designs and sculpture was a short foreword by compiler Ludwig Goldscheider and a reprinting of Vasari's classic 16th-Century life of the artist...