 | John Murray (Firm) - Belgium - 1838 - 612 pages
...if there is one, to ascertain how far Rubens was indebted to it for his Christ, which I consider as one of the finest figures that ever was invented :...shoulder, and the falling of the body on one side, gives it such an appearance of the heaviness of death, that nothing can exceed it. " Of the three Marys,... | |
 | Europe - 1838 - 582 pages
...if there is one, to ascertain how far Rubens was indebted to it for his Christ, which I consider as one of the finest figures that ever was invented :...shoulder, and the falling of the body on one side, gives it such an appearance of the heaviness of death, that nothing can exceed it. " Of the three Marys,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Painters - 1846 - 506 pages
...if there is one, to ascertain how far Rubens was indebted to it for his Christ, which I consider as one of the finest figures that ever was invented ;...shoulder, and the falling of the body on one side, gives such an appearance of the heaviness of death, that nothing can exceed it. Of the three Maries,... | |
 | Ralph Nickolson Wornum - 1847 - 534 pages
...if there is one, to ascertain how far Rubens was indebted to it for his Christ, which I consider as one of the finest figures that ever was invented :...shoulder, and the falling of the body on one side, give such an appearance of the heaviness of death, that nothing can exceed it. " Of the three Marys, two... | |
 | Ralph Nicholson Wornum - Painting - 1847 - 520 pages
...if there is one, to ascertain how far Rubens was indebted to it for his Christ, which I consider as one of the finest figures that ever was invented :...shoulder, and the falling of the body on one side, give such an appearance of the heaviness of death, that nothing can exceed it. " Of the three Marys, two... | |
 | David Bogue - Belgium - 1852 - 400 pages
...if there is one, to ascertain how far Rubens was indebted to it for his Christ, which I consider as one of the finest figures that ever was invented ;...shoulder, and the falling of the body on one side, gives such an appearance of the heaviness of death, that nothing can exceed it. Of the three Marys,... | |
 | John Murray - Belgium - 1852 - 326 pages
...paint pure white linen near flesh ; but such know the advantage of it. I consider Rubens's Christ as one of the finest figures that ever was invented ; it is most correctly drawn, and, I apprchend, in an attitude of tho utmost difficulty to exccute. The hanging of the head on his shoulder,... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - Europe - 1852 - 314 pages
...to execute. The hanging of the head on the shoulder, and the falling of the body on one side, gives it such an appearance of the heaviness of death, that nothing can exceed it." But here, as in the other picture, I was impressed by the reality of the scene. In reflecting upon... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1855 - 986 pages
...it, ... and certainly no person knew so well as Rubens how to use it. ... The Christ I consider as one of the finest figures that ever was invented ;...shoulder, and the falling of the body on one side, gives such an appearance of the heaviness of death, that nothing can exceed it." The picture, of which... | |
 | 1855 - 488 pages
...it, ... and certainly no person knew so well as Rubens how to use it. ... The Christ I consider as one of the finest figures that ever was invented ;...shoulder, and the falling of the body on one side, gives such an appearance of the heaviness of death, that nothing can exceed it." The picture, of which... | |
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I consider as one of the finest figures that ever was invented : it is most correctly drawn, and I apprehend in an attitude of the utmost difficulty to execute. The hanging of the head on his shoulder, and the falling of the body on one side, gives such... 
