We have before us the January part of the Art
Journal, No. 61, and we are much impressed by the activity and completeness which is still displayed in this popular work. The new part contains as usual three engravings, —one from Frost's "Una ; " "the Lady Constance," a portrait after Win- terhalter ; and a plate by W. Holl, after RaphaePs picture of "Bearing the Cross" in the Royal Gallery of Madrid. All these are beautifully executed, and beautifully got up. The last of the three is one of the illustrations to a paper on Raphael, in a series of articles on "Rome and her Works of Art." Besides the print there are woodcuts giving distinct and clearly finished sketches of ornaments in the Vatican, including some of the largest pictures and doorpieces. These wood-cuts come very handily, as illustrating what we have said regarding the animation and life of Raphael's pictures, even when they are of the most abstract if not geometrical kind. The "Dispute of the Sacrament" is a case in point. There is a very varied list of papers on art and all its bearings,—including, for instance, tablets for street-cor- ners, botany, early domestic architecture art in the provinces, &c. And the series of papers on the Thames, is followed up by a new series on "The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea," with many practical and graphic illustrations, of beautiful scenes, log-hut life in the Wilderness, the animal tenants of the forests, camp life, first clearings, swamp-travelling, &e.
A correspondent reports further on the visit of Mr. Morris Moore to Munich with the Apollo and Marsyas of Raphael. It attracted the great- est attention ; and the following is a copy of an address presented to Mr. Moore from the artists of that city :
Munich, 19th December, 1859.
"Honoured Sir—By the public exhibition of Raphael's original painting of Apollo and Marayas, in your possession, you have afforded the artists and lovers of art in this city a supreme delight, the memory of which will long live among their most cherished reminiscences. Public opinion has, wi.h rare unanimity, pronounced itself upon this painting, the exquisite beauty of which proclaims with irresistible eloquence the sublime llrbinate as its author. Moreover, the pure intellectual feast which we have enjoyed has placed you among the benefactors of this Institution, since, in the most handsome and disinterested manner, you have devoted the proceeds of the exhibition to the benefit of the Artists' Benevolent Fund of this city. Itt the name of the Corporation of Artists, we, the undersigned, hereby respect- fully do ourselves the honour to express our thanks for this generous dona- tion. Your name will be inscribed in the Golden Book,* which is devoted to the memory of those who have deserved well of the Institution. , "Accept the assurance of the highest esteem with which we subscribe our- selves, for the Committee of the Artists' Benevolent Fund,
"Jos. BERNHARDT, President. "JUL. ZIMMERAL2NN, Secretary." 0 A book illuminated with letters in gold, dm., and kept for the purpose men- tioned in the text.
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