Identifier: earlyflemishpain00crow (find matches)
Title: The early Flemish painters: notices of their lives and works
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896 Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897
Subjects: Painters Painting
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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CHAP. XIV.) ITS INFLUENCE ABROAD. 351 a profession and one leading to such a pitiful end.Durer made a quaint reply, and there the matterended. • The subject of Stephens picture, or rather ofLoetheners picture, supposing the two men to be iden-tical, is the Adoration of the Magi in the centre,and the patron saints of the city on the wings. Thaton the right liand contains St. Gereon and his atten-dants ; the left, St. Ursula and eleven virgins ; the closedslmtters display an Annunciation. No styles were more divergent than those of Wilhelmand Stephen; and it is impossible to tell whether thelatter followed the discipline of the former. But, whilstin Wilhelm one discovers length and meagreness asspecially characteristic, a small, stout class of person-ages figures in the panels of Stephen. As the lofty .pointed style of architecture, exhibited in the cathedral,contrasts with the low and Saxon build of St. Gereons,so the pictures of the two great painters of Colognecontrast with one ano

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