. The spell of Flanders; an outline of the history, legends and art of Belgium's famous northern provinces, being the story of a twentieth century pilgrimage in a sixteenth century land just before the outbreak of the great war . orm of memorial coulddo. CHAPTER XX ANTWEEP FROM THE TIME OF RUBENS TILL TO-DAY ?F there is one name more honoured inFlanders than any other — more often em-ployed as the name of hotels, restau-rants or cafes; more frequently on the lips ofguides, caretakers and sacristans; more con-stantly in the mind of every tourist, be he orshe American, English or Continental — i
. The spell of Flanders; an outline of the history, legends and art of Belgium's famous northern provinces, being the story of a twentieth century pilgrimage in a sixteenth century land just before the outbreak of the great war . orm of memorial coulddo. CHAPTER XX ANTWEEP FROM THE TIME OF RUBENS TILL TO-DAY ?F there is one name more honoured inFlanders than any other — more often em-ployed as the name of hotels, restau-rants or cafes; more frequently on the lips ofguides, caretakers and sacristans; more con-stantly in the mind of every tourist, be he orshe American, English or Continental — it isthe name of the greatest of Flemish painters,Peter Paul Rubens. No book on Flanders, andmost assuredly no work touching on Antwerp,would be complete without some reference tothe life and work of this prince among paint-ers, yet no task can be more superfluous, sincenothing can be said that will add in the slight-est degree to his fame. He ranks in the his-tory of art with the greatest masters in theworld — with Michael Angelo, Leonardo, Rem-brandt, Raphael, Titian and Velasquez — andit is probable that more books have been writ-ten about him than about Antwerp references have been made in 438. THE DESCENT PROM THE CROSS. —RUBENS. Antwerp from the Time of Rubens 439 previous chapters to notable paintings byEubens to be seen in various churches through-out Flanders—particularly to The MiraculousDraught of Fishes at Malines, which is saidto have been saved from the destruction of thatcity, having been carried away before the firstof its many bombardments. It is at Antwerp,however, that the tourist who desires to studythe work of Eubens will find him at his bestand in greatest profusion. And the most fa-mous spot enriched by his unrivalled art isthe cathedral. Here hang his two greatest de-votional works, The Elevation of the Cross and ^ The Descent from the Cross. Theformer was painted in 1610 and gave the youngartist — he was then only thirty-t
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