The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 254
minous shadow—this was Rem-brandts great achievement. Just asMichelangelo created a race of giantsfor his own use, and manipulated themas his genius dictated, so Rembrandtcreated a light all his own, which ispossible without being real, andplunged all nature into this bath ofgold. Everything in… … FIG- 452. ST. MATTHEW. REMBRANDT. (The Louvre.) crossbowmen in broad daylight—likethe Syndics, also in the AmsterdamRyksmuseum, like the Manoalis Sacri-fice at Dresden; compositions minuteas to scale, but infinitely great inconception, like the Philosophers andthe Suptcr at Eminaus in the…
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