The Belgian galleries : being a history of the Flemish school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in Bruges, Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels and other Belgian cities (1912)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · Boston : St. Botolph Society · leaf 358
thehands of the latter; and, lifting him by the chainand one leg, is casting him head downwards into theeverlasting gulf. Horror is well depicted on thesufferers face. The condemned about him are ter-rified at his punishment, and the agony expressed intheir faces renders the scene more dramatic.… … Brussels 271 pression denote uncommon ability. The principalgroup contains a lost soul suspended by an ironchain by the neck, to which he clings to lessen theweight of his body; a demon holds one end ofthe chain while another demon lifts the criminal bythe feet and balances him over the dreadful…
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