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 86
figure.In his Peste dAlost, there is much of the same quiet grace, asmay be seen in the figure we select therefrom. The expression oftrustful hope and resignation in this man as he gazes on the saintis very tender (Fig. 46). RUBENS AND VANDYKE, ETC. 69 His great pupil, Vandyke, is second only to… … Fig. 45.—The MartjTdom of St. John. work. The one on the right of the cross, with distorted featuresand distended chest, is hopelessly dying in sin (Pig. 47); but theother, over whose cramped and tortured limbs the lassitude ofapproaching death seems already creeping (so beautifullybetokened by the…
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