Stories of the Flemish & Dutch artists, from the time of the Van Eycks to the end of the seventeenth century (1908)
Reynolds, Victor, comp · London, Chatto & Windus; New York, Duffield & Co. · leaf 36
The accomplished painter of whom I amtelling was one of the most scrupulous observers,and one might well believe that he had set outpurposely to prove the falsehood of Plinysassertion, that a painter who undertakes to puttogether a considerable number of persons in apicture always makes some of… … o .s HUBERT & JAN VAN EYCK 13 all resembles another. Besides, the heads give usthe most diverse expressions—divine meditation,love, faith. The Virgin seems to move her lipsand to pronounce the words of the book whichshe is reading. The landscape shows us several exotic trees ;for, as we shall…
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