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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...was married there in that year. In 1468 he received the title of municipal painter. In 1473 he remarried, still in Louvain, where he died two years later. His long residence there, together with the character of his work, would almost force us to include him in the Flemish school. His two sons, Thierry II and Albrecht, continued his work without inheriting his genius. The altar of one of the chapels of Saint Peter's at Louvain is probably to be considered Bouts' most important work, although only the centre panel, 'The Last Supper,' now remains there, the wings having been carried off to the Munich Gallery. In Saint Peter's, also, is a second altar by him, representing the 'Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus.' Other important works by the master are to be seen at Berlin ('The Crucifixion'). The 'Head of a Man' in the Metropolitan Museum of New York is an admirable example of his portraiture. We may notice, beside, 'The Virgin with the Infant Christ' at Antwerp. 'The Martyrdom of Saint Hippolyte' at Bruges, 'The Lamentation over the Body of Christ' in the Louvre and 'The Crucifixion' at Granada. Of his pictures for the Town Hall of Louvain, two survive in the Brussels Gallery--'The Unjust Judgment of Emperor Otho III' and 'The Punishment of the Guilty Empress.' It is not possible to overlook the art-historical point of view in studying Bouts, as his period was one in which the means of the painter were being developed, and in this respect we must notice the progress he made in the knowledge of representing space. Neither the van Eycks nor Van der Weyden equalled Bouts in this. But from the aesthetic point of view he is even more remarkable. His idea of form and composition is an elevated one, but we must take him as a colorist to find his greatest...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230031693
- ISBN 13 9781230031699
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages748
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