Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 97
tes of a painter, in perfecttruth it personifies the sole Flemish sovereignty which hasneither been contested nor menaced, and which certainlynever will be. At the end of the square is seen Notre Dame ; it pre-sents itself in profile, being outlined by one of its lateralfaces, the darkest one, on… … The Descent prom the Cross. Rubens. THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS 63 colossal tower where the golden disk and the goldenneedles of its dial glitter in the stone discoloured by thevapours from the Scheldt and by the winters, it assumemonstrous proportions. When the sky is troubled, as it isto-day, it…
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