History of mediæval art . uperintend-ent after the death of Menneville, and held this office for twenty-one years. His superiority over all his predecessors gave him aposition similar to that of the Pisani in Tuscany. He trained hisnephew Claux de Werne (Verwe) to be his assistant and who were engaged in the work, judging by their names,—Wuillequin Seront, Hennequin Prindale, Hennequin de Bruxelles,etc.,—must likewise have been his countrymen. The character and excellence of the art of Sluter and his school THE NETHERLANDS. 605 are fully recognizable in the works which have be
History of mediæval art . uperintend-ent after the death of Menneville, and held this office for twenty-one years. His superiority over all his predecessors gave him aposition similar to that of the Pisani in Tuscany. He trained hisnephew Claux de Werne (Verwe) to be his assistant and who were engaged in the work, judging by their names,—Wuillequin Seront, Hennequin Prindale, Hennequin de Bruxelles,etc.,—must likewise have been his countrymen. The character and excellence of the art of Sluter and his school THE NETHERLANDS. 605 are fully recognizable in the works which have been preserved. Ofthe Church of the Carthusians nothing remains but the portal, inwhich the portrait-statues of the duke and his wife, remarkable fortheir careful execution and the freshness of their realism, are proba-bly by Sluters own hand. This is certainly the case with the exist-ing remains of the so-called Fountain of Moses (Fig. 381), a hexagonalbase, the chief ornaments of which are six figures of the
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