. The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types ; St. John the Baptist ; and other persons of the Old and New Testament. 189 Bad Thief. (Antonelloda Messina. AntwerpGallery.) Antonello da Messina, in the Ertborn collec-. ? \ THE CRUCIFIXION WITH THE THIEVES. 169 tion at Antwerp (woodcut, No. 189); the long Northern residenceof this painter having apparently imbued him with the fantasticfeeling in the treatment of this subject afterwards so strongly andoften unbecomingly developed in G-ermany and Flanders. Here itis palliated by a certain feeling for beauty, wh
. The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types ; St. John the Baptist ; and other persons of the Old and New Testament. 189 Bad Thief. (Antonelloda Messina. AntwerpGallery.) Antonello da Messina, in the Ertborn collec-. ? \ THE CRUCIFIXION WITH THE THIEVES. 169 tion at Antwerp (woodcut, No. 189); the long Northern residenceof this painter having apparently imbued him with the fantasticfeeling in the treatment of this subject afterwards so strongly andoften unbecomingly developed in G-ermany and Flanders. Here itis palliated by a certain feeling for beauty, which, if we forget fora moment the period of suspension, strikes us in the elastic andbowlike form of the bad thief. He seems, too, to have borrowed theGreek tradition as to the age of the sufferers ; for the head of hisgood thief is bearded, the other not. But more frequently, in theItalian school, the signs of age are reversed, and the bad thief ismade an old sinner, whilst the other turns to the Lord a counten-ance beautified by youth as well as by repentance. The more Italian feeling of the great masters of the 15thcentury—Bellini, Mantegna, &c.—have left to us no such arbitrarydistortions. Their thieves, though variously treated, have
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