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Heart of Europe (1915)

Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942 · New York, Scribner's · leaf 288

An illustration from Heart of Europe, 1915, leaf 288
of the greatest. When Hubertpainted the Adoration of the Lamb, he merelygathered together all these arts and manifestedhis enormous and astounding synthesis in con-centrated form, and better than any one had everdone before. All the intricate delicacy of jewelwork, all the vivacity of clean-cut… … OUR LADY, FROM THE TRYPTICH AT GHENTHUBERT VAN EYCK THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PAINTERS 227 and the human appeal of the poignant beauty ofthe world, and the transcendent magic of the super-natural, sacramentally and visibly set forth. This, which very well may be the greatest pic-ture in the world (it…

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