The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained . t, now in theLakenhal of Leyden. Our picture here is in tem-pera and transferred to canvas, the colours havingdarkened considerably. It represents the legendthat years before the birth of Christ the Tibur-tinian Sibyl showed to the Emperor Augustus theimage of the Madonna holding the Babe. Thispainting furnishes an interesting instance of theresults of critical study. The Madonna vignettewhich appears at the top is a veritable copy ofDii
The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained . t, now in theLakenhal of Leyden. Our picture here is in tem-pera and transferred to canvas, the colours havingdarkened considerably. It represents the legendthat years before the birth of Christ the Tibur-tinian Sibyl showed to the Emperor Augustus theimage of the Madonna holding the Babe. Thispainting furnishes an interesting instance of theresults of critical study. The Madonna vignettewhich appears at the top is a veritable copy ofDiirers woodcut which appeared in 1508, so thatthe painting must have been made after that we note further the tendency to figure-elonga-tion which appears in the engravings which we haveof Lukas van Leyden, but which disappears in hislater paintings. It is plausible therefore to placethis work in the early years of this very precociousartist, or about 1510 or 1512. Nearby hangs a Holy Family (No. 556),attributed to the Master of the Death of Mary,or Joost van Cleve, to give him the name foundfor him. On the long wall we find a genuine example of. THE SIBYL OF TIBUR AND THE EMPERORLUKASyAN Plate xxv LEYDEN AUGUSTUS Imperial Academy of Fine Arts Imperial Hcaoems of jfine Hrts 185 the elusive Hendrik met de Bles, This Rocky-Landscape (No. 548), with scenes from thePassion in small figures, is signed with the littleowl, which gave the artist his Italian name ofCiveta. An old copy of Hendriks work hangs inthe third compartment (No. 551). The copyistwas well able to follow his exemplar in the smallfigures and animals of these scenes from the lifeof Christ and of John the Baptist, but he couldnot reach him in the landscape part, which is flaccidand weak. The fourth compartment contains much of in-terest. The only work in Vienna of the rare DirkBouts of Haarlem, who went to Louvain to studywith Rogier van der Weyden, is found here. Itis a Coronation of Mary (No. 558), a magni-fi
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