own soul. Here we have a profoundmelancholy in the gaze, and the painter has usedevery means in his power to emphasize and sustainthis impression of melancholy by the atmosphericdepth and by the elimination of all distractingdetail. Nicolaas Maes, a contemporary and pupil ofRembrandt, and up to a… … Properly o/ Ike iltlrup^.Ua: il^^.uii.PORTR.\IT BY NICOLAAS MAES llattering style of his later years. Even in his de-cline Macs was a great craftsman, and his pic-tures invariably give pleasure by their competentexecution. It is interesting to compare the portrait by Lotto,so completely Italian and…
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