de. He added evening to the daylight which alone had been attempted before him. And, in his choice of landscape, he enlarged the visible area of earth and sky brought into the background, and diminished in proportion the scale of his figures. He shows us as only Van Eyck had done, and he but… … The Entombment. By Dirck Bouts. National Gallery. THE RISE OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING. 283 saintly personages. Comparing the Archbishop ofKolns * Madonna with this St. Christofer, we geta measure of the change which a century had pro-duced. In the former the Virgin is colossal, thebackground is a…
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