The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-24
RARE PRINTS ARE
NOW AT LIBRARY
ARUNDEL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SOON TO BE EXHIBITED.
Aside from Their Artistic Excellence
They Are of Interest from Their His
toric Associations and Their Rarity
The Collection Is the Only subscrib-
ers' Set Sold for Twenty Years.

The set of Arundel chromo-litho-
graphs, of the old masters, which the
Atheneum recently ordered from Lon
don, has been a received u at the Mime
to be a treasure even more rare than
the library expected to secure, as 1T
is an original subscriber IS copy, each
plate absolutely perfect and new; the
only subscribers copy known to have
been sold in twenty years.
It is hoped that some sort of arrange
ment may be made in the near future
pictures may be open to public view.
To this end the library management
will display the prints In the art book /.
room of the public library next Friday
evening, to the directors of the public
library and Atheneum and a few
in determining the best and safest
method to be employed in preserving
and exhibiting the. collection.
There are few complete sets of the
Arundel acknowledgements in the
United States. The very existence of
such collection is probably unknown
not only to the average library patron,
ested in art matters, Judging from the
number of inquiries coming in at the
library CONCERNING this latest purchase.
A brief account of the society, its aims
and the nature of it's work, will, there
fore, be Of interest to many. -
The Arundel society organized in
1s4s, was named at the suggestion of
Sir Charles Eastlake, after Thomas
Howard, Earl Of Arundel, best known
as the acquirer of the Arundel marbles,
| in the possession of Oxford university.
The principal object of the society was
to reproduce in correct form and color
the wonderful fresco paintings of the
fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth cen,
the Arena Chapel in Padua and ending
with Raphael and Michelangelo and
the decorations Of the Vatican, COM
prising in one great epoch all that was
most divine in pictorial art.
The originator Of the society, was
Bellenden Kerr, a well known lawyer
of that time, who had taken an active
part in the Society for the Diffusion
treduce some similar agency into the
domain of art. John Ruskin was one
of the first and most enthusiastic mem
bers of the society," whose membership
4 soon numbered about 500 English gen
tlemen. The first attempts .atsreproduc-
ltion were thru the medium UNI Of wood en-
craving. This did not prove satlsfac-
tory At the suggestion of Sir Henry
| Layard, who brought to light the buried
marbles Of Nineveh, mo-hthography
i was tried. AS this, art was then in its
infancy, with practically no skillful
workers in England, the actual work
had to be done at first in Berlin, under
the guidance of Ludwig Grune1T, the
great German engraver. The result was
most gratifying and the. Arundel So
ciety may justly claim to be the prin-
ciaI promoters of romo-lithography In
it's highest forms, by showing thru their
publications what it is capable of eff
fecting. EFe
The 200 pictures reproduced include
the two series by Giotto in the upper
chapel at Assist and the Arena chapel
j at Padua; the works of Fra Angelica III
the chapel of the Vatican; specimens
of Botticelli from Florence; of Filippo
and Filipino Lippi from Prato and
Rome; the series, of frescoes by, Floren.
tine and Umbrian artists, on the walls
of the Sistine chapel; the lbeautifu
series by Ghirlandajo, which adorn the
walls Of S. M. Novella at Florence, ex-
amples from the various localities OF
frescoes by Perugino, Pinturicchio, An.
: drea Del Sarto, Michelangelo and
Raphael, and Luini s beautiful Burial
of st. Catherine now in the Brera,
Milan. Also few of the finest and
earliest examples of the Flemish and
German schools, such as the great altar
piece Of the Alteration Of the Lamb, at
Client, by the brothers Van Eyck, 4
triptych at Bruges by Memling, and the
Alteration of the Trinity at Vienna by
Albert Durer.