. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. without the help of allegory ; but he had brushed aside all the conven-tions in which they had been gradually entangled. Basing his work onthe direct study of nature, he had brought the features he consideredessentially characteristic into strong relief. His Anatomy Lesson wasthe glorification of Science itself; in his Sortie of a Company ofAmsterdam Musketeers he embodied that civic heroism which had latelycompassed Dutch independence ; and in a group of five cloth-merchantsseated round a table, discussing the affairs of their guild, he summed u
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. without the help of allegory ; but he had brushed aside all the conven-tions in which they had been gradually entangled. Basing his work onthe direct study of nature, he had brought the features he consideredessentially characteristic into strong relief. His Anatomy Lesson wasthe glorification of Science itself; in his Sortie of a Company ofAmsterdam Musketeers he embodied that civic heroism which had latelycompassed Dutch independence ; and in a group of five cloth-merchantsseated round a table, discussing the affairs of their guild, he summed up,as it were, in a few immortal types, the noble sincerity of Dutch por-traiture. These three works themselves invite us to overstep the limitsof actuality on which they were based ; they speak to us of the ideal ;they are not only landmarks in a great career, but evidences to thatsuperiority over all his predecessors which we claim for the master—asuperiority which becomes more conspicuous still if we look forwardto those who succeeded WOMAN IN A HOOO. About 1642 (B. 359).
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