Great masters of Dutch and Flemish painting (1909)
Bode, Wilhelm von, 1845-1929, Clarke, Margaret L · London : Duckworth and co.; New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 28
ed as ugly. He delineates the people pre-cisely as he saw them around him, stunted in figure as aconsequence of the heavy northern dress and of the hard-ships of their lives, mean and commonplace in type, withan expression which tells of sorrow and suffering. For hisgenre pictures, as well as for… … REMBRANDT OLD LADY National Gallery To face p. 6 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN 7 and primarily from among the poor Jews of the quarterwhere he had his house and which he seldom left. Thoughhis heathen gods and goddesses, when on rare occasions hedoes represent them, are thus partially devoid of their…
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