The early Flemish painters: notices of their lives and works . ced. The Virgin, standing on the right in a pensiveattitude, and seeming to listen, bends her head towardsthe angel; she wears a transparent veil, through whichher yellow hair appears; a blue cloth gracefully fallingover the ears is fastened at the neck, and opens outto show the hands delicately crossed at the bosom;then forming full and sweeping folds, it fills the fore-ground, and impinges on the central space. 2 The inner 1 Les Pays Bas portent encore le nom de Germanie in-ferieure ou Basse Allemagne. Guicciardini, 11. s., p. 3.
The early Flemish painters: notices of their lives and works . ced. The Virgin, standing on the right in a pensiveattitude, and seeming to listen, bends her head towardsthe angel; she wears a transparent veil, through whichher yellow hair appears; a blue cloth gracefully fallingover the ears is fastened at the neck, and opens outto show the hands delicately crossed at the bosom;then forming full and sweeping folds, it fills the fore-ground, and impinges on the central space. 2 The inner 1 Les Pays Bas portent encore le nom de Germanie in-ferieure ou Basse Allemagne. Guicciardini, 11. s., p. 3. 2 The whole work is about 9 f. 9 in. square, including thelunette which contains the representation of the Eternal. TheAnnunciation, taken alone, is 9 ft. 9 in. by 7 ft. 6 in. The wholepicture is entirely under glass, for its better preservation; por-tions of it, such as the gold work of the dresses of the two prin-cipal figures, being partially efifaced, and the blue of the Virginsdress darkened by age. The landscapes also have become slightlyindistinct. I. • THE Picture, by Justus dAllatnagua, in Santa Maria di Castello, at Genoa pa^e 172 CHAP. VII.] JUSTUS OR JODOCUS OF GHENT. 173 dress, seen beneath the mantle fringed -with goldenembroidered letters, is of rich gold stuff; a paintedreceptacle of stone covered with a red cloth stands atthe Virgins side, and is filled with books; an archof stones, alternately coloured black and white, opensbehind, and golden rays dart upon the figure from theglory that surrounds the Eternal. The announcing angel, dressed in a golden cope,with broad edges containing figures of the Apostles,occupies the central and left portion of the picture,and, kneeling at some distance back, holds out onehand, and grasps a delicate mace in the other; theinner dress of white falls in folds on a chequered brownand white floor, leaving bare the naked feet. In arecess a basin lies; above it hangs an ewer; a birddips its beak into the water
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