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383. Van der Meire. Triptych from an altar; Centre, Way to Calvary, with
St. Veronica offering her napkin, and brutal, stolid Flemish soldiers
bearing the hammer, etc. In the background, the Flight into Egypt. The
_wings_ have been transposed. _L._, (should be R.), the Finding of
Christ in the Temple. _R._ (should be L.), the Presentation in the
Temple.
Above it, 380. Van den Broeck (1530-1601): a Last Judgment. Interesting
for comparison with previous examples. Renaissance nude.
557. Unknown. Dutch School of the early 16th century. The Tiburtine
Sibyl showing the Emperor Augustus the apparition of the Virgin and
Child on the Aventine. A page, his robe embroidered with his master’s
initial A., holds the Emperor’s crown. Very Dutch architecture. (The
Catalogue, I think erroneously, makes it the Madonna appearing to
Constantine.)
560. Good hard early Dutch portrait.
527. Unknown. Resurrection, the Saviour, bearing the white pennant, with
red cross, and sleeping Roman soldiers.
42. An Adam and Eve, attributed to Cranach the Elder. Harsh northern
nude.
341. Good portrait by Susterman, _alias_ Lambert Lombard.
Above these, Madonna, in the Byzantine style, with the usual Greek
inscriptions.
521. School of Albert Dürer: Mater Dolorosa, with the Seven Sorrows
around her.
549. Good Flemish portrait of William I., Prince of Orange.
Above, 387, Van der Meire: an Entombment, with the usual figures,
Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea; the Magdalen in the foreground with
the box of ointment; the Mater Dolorosa supported by St. John (in red);
and, behind, the two Maries. In the background, a _Pietà_—that is to
say, the same group mourning over the Dead Saviour.
425. Van Hemessen: The Calling of Matthew from the receipt of custom.
Harsh and uninteresting.
568. School of Quentin Matsys: Christ and St. Veronica. Probably part
only of a Way to Calvary. The spiked club is frequent.
241. Quentin Matsys: a fine and celebrated *Head of the Saviour
Blessing, with more expression than is usual in the Flemish type of this
subject. Notice even here, however, close adhesion to the original
typical features.
242. Quentin Matsys: Companion *Head of Our Lady, as Queen of Heaven.
Full of charm and simplicity.
Between these, 4, =*Antonello da Messina= (an Italian profoundly
influenced by the School of Van Eyck, and the first to introduce the
Flemish improvements in oil-painting into Italy). Crucifixion, with St.
John and Our Lady. This work should be carefully studied, as a
connecting link between the art of Flanders and Italy. It is painted
with the greatest precision and care, and bears marks everywhere of its
double origin—Flemish minuteness, Italian nobility.
254. Memling: **admirable cold-toned portrait of a member of the De Croy
family. The hands, face, and robe, are all exquisitely painted.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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