The Vienna galleries - giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained (1912) (14783595765)

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Title: The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: Boston : St. Botolph Soc.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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r establishes a gentle, humble, but still cordialrelationship with the thoroughly human appearanceof the Virgin and Child. So is the figure of St.Anthony, as designated by the little pig at his side,wonderfully expressive of affectionate interest.Memlinc excelled his forerunners in that he infusedin his recital of Christian traditions a purer human-ism than had as yet been attained. His half-figureof the Madonna and Child, before an archi-tectonic background, is more conventional but stillopulent in splendour. Several works are ascribed to Quentin Massys,but only one with undoubted authority. This is a Portrait of an Ecclesiastic, and must be regardedas the masters principal work in Vienna. The half-figure of the man, standing behind a balustrade, isseen looking straight before him with an animatedlight in his eyes, as if pausing in expounding apassage from the book which he holds in his lefthand. The eyeglasses which he holds in his righttouch the book in the most natural manner. His
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HANSMEMLINC MADONNA AND DONORPlate xxxix f U B L, Liechten Collection Ube Xiecbtenstein Collection 253 black, fur-bordered coat is almost entirely coveredby a white, pleated surplice of lacy lawn, and hisstrongly modelled head is covered with a stiffberetta. The preacher, for this is undoubtedly hisprofession, is discoursing in the open, and a beauti-ful, undulating landscape stretches behind him. The progress of landscape art is further shownin an excellent, early work by Hendrik met de Bles,signed with his little owl, portraying the holy her-mits Paul and Anthony. This work is, withouta vestige of reason, ascribed to Lukas van Leyden.Of the later Flemings we find here the twoBreughels, Peasant Breughel and Hellish Breughel.The former has a Preaching by John the Baptist and a Triumph of Death ; while the latter isseen in a winter landscape that has much similarityto his small snow scene which we saw in the ImperialMuseum. The only known authentic work of Gillisvan Coninxloo, a famous