Homes, haunts, and works of Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, and Cuyp; the Dutch genre-painters; Michael Angelo and Raffaelle. Being a series of art-rambles in Belgium, Holland and Italy (1872)
Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 · New York : D. Appleton and co. · leaf 74
aintly legend into scripturalhistory that gave the earlier artists so much scope for variety RUBENS AND VANDYKE, ETC. 57 in their compositions, and of which the moderns, for variousreasons, cannot avail themselves. When pictures were ordered forchurches, it became a necessary duty for the artist… … Fig- 31.—Pitying Angels—after Vandyke. the portion of the picture here given (Fig. z^). The boldest ofmodern painters would hardly dare to introduce at the foot of thecross saints who are popularly known to have lived many hun-dred years after that event, and make them take the place ofthose (St.…
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