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 84
ke the cathedrals that enshrine them, andwhich we can now scarcely imitate. There is a deep-seatedreflective sorrow in the face of the good centurion as he gazes on RUBENS AND VANDYKE, ETC. 67 his dying Saviour upon the cross (Fig. 43) : he leans forward onhis horse, abstracted from all other… … Fig. 42.—The Dead Christ—Rubens. as if to prevent this last outrage, is one of those touches of naturewhich go home to the heart. Rubens is often, and sometimes justly, accused of coarsenessin his pictures of martyrdoms. In the gallery at Brussels is aterrible example, in which a saints tongue is…
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