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ent, had noscruples about expressing the utmost of his subject;and even in decorating a church was reproved for falling short of the standard of chastity required.But between the extremes of brutality and convention-alism there is such a wide expanse of pure joy ofpainting that nothing can diminish… … FLEMISH SCHOOL I HUBERT AND JAN VAN EYCK In 1383, on the death of Louis de Maele, his son-in-law Hubert andPhilip the Hardy, Duke of Burgundy, assumed the Jan vangovernment of Flanders. In the same year Philip Eyckfounded the Carthusian Convent at Dijon and em-ployed a Flemish painter named Melchin…
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