Hoyt, Deristhe Levinte · Boston, U.S.A., Ginn & Company · leaf 204
t greatest gift toartists, is largest in the history of art ; his invention isboundless. His subjects are scriptural, historical, mythological, por-trait, landscape, and animals. In his religious pictures he followed the traditions ofCatholic Italy. Yet there is very little that seems Christianin… … Rubens. Holy Family. Pitti Gallery, Florence. In many of his mythological pictures he paid little heedto the ideal heaven of mythology. Whether he representedMinerva, Juno, or Venus, Mercury or Paris, all are markedby an excess of animal life that overpowers all thought of 1S2 THE WORLDS PAINTERS.…
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