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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 72

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in his works. Thesombre character of the period with its crimes, per-secutions and atrocious wars is reflected in thetragic pictures of both father and son. During the second half of the Sixteenth Cen-tury, Pieter Brueghel is the great jester of theFlemish School; he is one of those who used… … jflemfsb f>atnters an& patntfna 43 slightest fancy of the painter of peasants is worthmore in a moral sense and in historical value thanthe most learned reminiscences of Floris and DeVos. Moreover, he is closer than they to the tradi-tional ways of Flemish painting. He believes inboldly…

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