 | John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 674 Seiten
...Centurion is watching the agonies of the impenitent thief."— /. Belgium. " The genius of Rubens nowhere appears to more advantage than here : it is the most...most consummate art ; the composition is bold and uncjmmon, with circumstances which no other painter had ever before thought of; such as the breaking... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 Seiten
...have heen kissing his feet, looks at the horseman with the spear, with a countenance of great horror: as the expression carries with it no grimace or contortion...Magdalen, to which we may add the disposition of the three crosses, which are placed prospectively in an uncommon picturesque manner: the nearest bears the thief... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), John Murray (publishers.) - 1850 - 676 Seiten
...mane of his horse, while he looks up to Christ with great earnestness." " The genius of Rubens nowhere appears to more advantage than here : it is the most...which no other painter had ever before thought of; auch as the breaking of the limbs, and the expression of the Magdalen, to which we may add the disposition... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), John Murray (publishers.) - 1852 - 662 Seiten
...mane of his horse, while he looks up to Christ with great earnestness." " The genius of Rubens nowhere appears to more advantage than here — it is the...Magdalen, to which we may add the disposition of the three crosses, which are placed perspectively in an uncommon picturesque manner : the nearest bears the thief... | |
 | John Murray - 1852 - 326 Seiten
...mane of his horse, while he looks up to Christ with great earnestness." " The genius of Rubens nowhere appears to more advantage than here — it is the...The whole is conducted with the most consummate art. Thecomposition is bold and uncommon, with cireumstances which no other painter had ever before thought... | |
 | Thomas William Jex Blake - 1858 - 256 Seiten
...works. This has not been restored, hut the other has. ' The whole is conducted,' says Sir Joshua, ' with the most consummate art. The composition is bold...to which we may add, the disposition of the three crosses, which are placed perspectively, in an uncommon, picturesque manner.' ' It is certainly,' he... | |
 | John Burnet - 1859 - 170 Seiten
...the mane of his horse, while he looks at Christ with great earnestness. The genius of Rubens nowhere appears to more advantage than here ; it is the most carefully finished of all his works. The whole is conducted with the most consummate art. The composition is bold and... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), John Murray (publishers.) - 1868 - 748 Seiten
...horse, while he looks up to Christ with great earnestness." " The genius of Eubens nowhere ap» pears to more advantage than here — it is the most carefully finished picture of all his works. Tho whole is conducted with the most consummate art. The composition is bold and uncommon, with circumstances... | |
 | Victoria. Commission, Philadelphia exhibition, 1876 - 1875 - 1020 Seiten
...Antwerp, by P. Farasyn. 3156 "Christ between Two Thieves/' PP Rubens. "The genius of Rubens nowhere appears to more advantage than here; it is the most...whole is conducted with the most consummate art." Copied from the original in the Gallery of Pictures at Antwerp, by FA Phillips. 3157 "Adoration of... | |
 | Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower - 1875 - 314 Seiten
...Joshua has described at length this wonderful picture, and of it he says that " Rubens' genius nowhere appears to more advantage than here. It is the most carefully finished picture of all his works ; " and, "here, and in such compositions, we properly see Rubens, and not in little pictures of Madonnas... | |
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The genius of Rubens no where appears to more advantage than here : it is the most carefully finished picture of- all his works. The whole is conducted with the most consummate art ; the composition is bold and uncommon, with circumstances which no other... 
