This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...with animal and human heads, sea-horses, birds and flowers, all executed with incomparable care, taste( and fancy, render this piece of still-life the most living work of art. But it is especially in painting that we shall best see the consequences of the Romanist influence in Flanders. Van Mander tells us that Jan ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...with animal and human heads, sea-horses, birds and flowers, all executed with incomparable care, taste( and fancy, render this piece of still-life the most living work of art. But it is especially in painting that we shall best see the consequences of the Romanist influence in Flanders. Van Mander tells us that Jan Schoreel was the first Netherlander who visited Italy. He calls him the standard-bearer and pioneer of his art in Flanders. But it is known that before this painter crossed the Alps about 1525, more than one Fleming had already undertaken the journey. Thus Rogier van der Weyden visited Rome in 1450; Josse or Justus of Ghent had painted in Italy in 1468. In that year he was invited to Urbino by Duke Federigo da Montefeltro, and painted for the Brotherhood of the Corpus Christi a Last Supper (Fig. 279) which may still be seen in the Museum of Urbino. In addition, he executed several works for the Duke: a series of portraits of philosophers and men of letters, numbering twentyeight, half of which are in Rome in the Barberini Palace (Fig. 280), whilst the others belong to the Louvre;) then, a series of allegories of the seven sciences, two of which are in the Berlin Museum and two in the National Gallery. The Barberini Gallery also possesses the portrait ) Many modern critics believe that part of this series, and the portrait of Federigo da Montefeltro and his son, were painted by Melozzo da Forli. (Tr.) FIG. 280.--JUSTUS OF GHENT. MOSES (Rome, Barberini Palace.) (Phot. Anderson.) FIG. 28I. GOSSAERT OR MABUSE. ST. LUKE PAINTING THE VIRGIN MARY (Vienna, Imperial Museum.) (Phot. Lowy.) group of Federigo da Montefeltro and his son Guidobaldo. The portrait of these famous personages is distinguished by soft and harmonious colour and by a nobility of form...
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