The early northern painters : studies in the National Gallery (1922)
Peers, Gertrude Katherine · London, Medici Society · leaf 194
delighted.In the sky is a very unimpressive monster more like acentipede than a dragon, and high in the right cornerthe Mother and Child. The colouring throughout is very beautiful, butthere is no feeling of air or out-of-doorness. The Flight into Egypt, No. 1084, and TheVisit of the Virgin to… … St. John on the Island of Patmos No. 717 JOACHIM PATINIR PATINIRS LANDSCAPE 149 two legends popular in the Middle Ages. WhenHerods soldiers reached Bethlehem and failed to findthe Child Jesus, they asked some countrymen who weregathering the harvest if the Mother and Child hadpassed that way. The…
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