Annals of the Fine Arts (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and if badness of design in their imitations of the Ancients characterized their times, it is much to be feared that badness of workmanship will more than distinguish ours. (To be continued.) Article III. On the Neglect of Architectural Work.s by the Reviewers of the Fine Arts. To the Editor of " Annals Op The Fine Arts." SlR, June 5th, 1816. It is with no little satisfaction that I have read the announcement of your projected Work, " AnNals Of The Fine Arts." It is superfluous to remark that a similar journal has long been a desideratum; for although many excellent critiques on various productions of the Arts have occasionally appeared in newspapers and magazines, they are scattered not only through such a number of volumes, but through so many different publications, as to be expensive to obtain, and not very convenient to consult: and it may well be said of them that they are " Rari nantes in gurgite vasto." Almost every other pursuit has long since had its appropriate journal, in which both professionalists and amateurs can impart the result of their studies, suggest useful hints, and solicit information, withequal readiness and freedom. Your publication offering similar advantages to the lovers of the fine arts, will doubtless be eagerly welcomed by them: while the " Review and Register/' which has appeared for two years in the New Monthly Magazine, and whose necessary brevity constituted its greatest defect, sufficiently vouch for your competency to conduct the work in which you have engaged. Architecture will, I trust, meet with all the attention from you that it deserves. This art, although capable of exciting the greatest enthusiasm in those who have attached themselves to it, and who are able to appreciate its various excellencies, is in general so sli...