Literary Influences on Tradition.

WILL-ERICH PEUCKERT. GABALIA. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, 1967. 578 pp. Reviewed by W. F. H. Nicolaisen.

STUDIES IN FOLK LIFE. Essays in honour of Iorwerth C. Peate. Edited by Geraint Jenkins. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. Pp. xvii, 344. 46 Plates and 4 maps and 55 line drawings. £4 4s. Reviewed by Michael M. Rix.

ORAL EPICS OF CENTRAL ASIA. By Nora K. Chadwick and Victor Zhirmunsky. Cambridge University Press. 1969. Pp. 366. 75s. Reviewed by E. O. James.

So LEBEN SIE NOCH HEUTE. BETRACHTUNGEN ZUM VOLKSMÄRCHEN. MAX LÜTHI. Göttingen (Vandenhoeck &; Ruprecht) 1969. Pp. 130. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

THE DAWN OF TIME. Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings by Ainslie Roberts, with text by CHARLES P. MOUNTFORD. 1969. Angus and Robertson. 25s. (and Rigby Limited, Adelade). Reviewed by Roger Lancelyn Green.     

On The Grounds Of Post‐Byzantine Greek Icons

The grounds of 51 post‐Byzantine icons (Eastern Orthodox panel paintings) were studied by means of analytical techniques. The artefacts cover the period from the mid‐15th to the mid‐19th century and originate mainly from western (Epirus and the Ionian Islands) and southern Greece (Crete). The findings are examined in the light of technical recipes from related areas and eras, while special insights are gained from the exploration of a gypsum processing recipe by Dionysius of Fourna. A spectrum of ground fabrication practices that is richer than that reported so far or can be deduced from surviving Greek recipes is documented; three instances of ‘grosso‐sottile’ type grounds and a case of ‘inverse grosso‐sottile’ ground are among the reported novel, for post‐Byzantine icons, findings. Moreover, a case of an early icon restoration intervention is documented.     

龙门所见《洛阳伽蓝记》中人物造像述论

龙门石窟的古阳洞,是北魏孝帝迁都洛阳以后兴建的第一个大窟,聚集着北魏王公大臣造像之遗迹。《洛阳伽蓝记》一书反映了北魏洛阳城内佛寺的盛况,记载着北魏皇亲国戚及百官大兴土木、营建寺塔之事实。这些耗资巨大、工程宏伟而又壮观的寺塔及石窟造像,使洛阳城成为当时佛教圣地和道场,在中国佛教史、化史及美术发展史上都是无与伦比的。本试图通过孝帝、北海王元详在城内造寺和在龙门开山造像的典型材料,反映北魏迁洛之初佛教发展的基本情况及主要特点。宣武帝、孝明帝及灵太后时期的佛教状况将另叙述。