The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 255
d as a singularity of Rubens, that he butrarely visited his best friends; but he received those verycordially who came to his house, excusing himself onaccount of the multiplicity of affairs with which he wasengaged. He, nevertheless, did not fail going to see the 101 CHRIST DEAD, &c. pictures… … C-ZtA^uy^ (uzt/U-e^^-^ t/fe hin/1on:luhUshd ty Vmwrjiood i- Sharpe,Pcu]tiy,i8o6. THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS. RUBENS. Rubens has neglected, in this composition, to uniteto his subject the accessaries by which it is characterized.He was willing to be indebted only to the magic power ofhis art for the…
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