28 DECEMBER 1929, Page 25

So much has been written of the Renaissance that we

wondered whether the Medici Society were filling a want in publishing Stories of the Artists : the Florentine School, by Miss Margaret Leicester-Warren (3s.). But after reading them, we are confident that there is a place for these eight short biographies of Cimabue, Giotto, Fra Angelico, Fm Lippo Lippi and his brother, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo • for they are all well and simply written. With the Italian Exhibition at Burlington House as the chief artistic event of 1930, such a short account of the Masters of the Renaissance, at a popular price, will doubtless be in great demand.