15 AUGUST 1925, Page 23

IN the introduction to his study of Giotto Signore Carlo

Carra takes great trouble to prove that all that is required for the appreciation of art is keen sensibility. Only occasionally, however, does he himself manage to transfer any of the sensibility he experienced to the pages of this book, which consists for the most part of extremely dull descriptions of the subject-matter of the pictures, historical information, and tedious though thorough enquiries into the authenticity of certain works which have been commonly attributed to Giotto. Experts will be interested in his attempt to prove that the majority of the Assisi paintings are not really those of Giotto after all, for the book is certainly authoritative. It is copiously illustrated.