Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 739
Jeanne de Chenany, paint-ed in 1434, now in the National Gallery of London. The life-like 704 PAINTING OF THE GOTHIC EPOCH. character of these unattractive personages, portrayed with a morethan photographic truth to nature, is not even the chief merit ofthe work: finer still is the representation… … Fig. 422.—Madonna of Canon van der Paele, by Jan van Eyck. Academy of Bruges. It is not strange that in the fifteenth century opinion was unde-cided in regard to the relative greatness of the two brothers, andthat the preference was often given to Jan, who, owing to his longerlife, accomplished…
Art, Medieval
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