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 36
from thedepth of his heart, and this is the secret of his immediateand powerful effect upon us. According to Koloff, he trans-lated the original text of the Holy Scriptures into plainDutch prose, and the wonders of the East became in histhought as well as in his pictures real local events andtrue… … w cc ? ceq o W J oo REMBRANDT VAN RIJN n lived according to the old Christian traditions, and there-fore in a certain way looked upon the Bible story as thehistory of their own people. To them the episodes fromthe life of Christ and the patriarchs were true, historicalpictures which might have been…
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