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esty; both are reading holy books, as they turn to-wards the centre figure. The countenance of S. Johnexpresses ascetic seriousness, but in that of the Virginwe find a serene grace and a purity of form whichapproach very nearly to the happier effects of Italian art.The arrangement of the lower… … Flemish School have demanded; but there is such beauty in the land- Hubert andscape, in the pure atmosphere, in the bright green of the Jan vangrass, in the masses of trees and flowers—even in the ^y<:ksingle figures which stand out from the four principalgroups—that we no longer perceive either…
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