The art of the Prado : a survey of the contents of the gallery, together with detailed criticisms of its masterpieces and biographical sketches of the famous painters who produced them (1907)
Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931 · Boston : L.C. Page & company · leaf 394
d never achieved again by Van Dyck.Here the sense of the effective in the designingof pictures (which at times is all that we are willingto allow Van Dyck) is of a different order; andwe are brought face to face with a dramaticpicture which leaves far behind the somewhattheatrical and pathetic… … VAN DYCK —THE BETRAYAL OF CHRIST ^ IB Dan H>£Cfc 379 the half-closed lips would still withhold, if theswelling of the temples and the ridge upon thebrows did not hint at the presence of a profoundemotion. The absence of an obvious or senti-mental resignation, the noble carriage of the headand…
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