. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. •THE RESURRECTION 125 The Resurrection is the last of this series, which, in spite of theintervals dividing the works, we have taken consecutively, by reasonof their analogies of arrangement and execution, and also becausethey deal continuously with the various episodes of the as they are, they cannot be ranked among Rembrandtsmasterpieces. Pi is anxiety to please the Prince, and to justify thehonour done to himself, led him perhaps to multiply figures andcontrasts in works the scale of which unfitted them for such complexity.
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. •THE RESURRECTION 125 The Resurrection is the last of this series, which, in spite of theintervals dividing the works, we have taken consecutively, by reasonof their analogies of arrangement and execution, and also becausethey deal continuously with the various episodes of the as they are, they cannot be ranked among Rembrandtsmasterpieces. Pi is anxiety to please the Prince, and to justify thehonour done to himself, led him perhaps to multiply figures andcontrasts in works the scale of which unfitted them for such complexity. POUTKAIT OF (B. I7> of treatment. It is evident that the master was no longer at his easein the dimensions he had formerly affected. He seems further to havebeen haunted by memories of the Italians who had treated theselofty themes before him; but in their passage through his Dutchimagination these involuntary reminiscences lost much of the grandeurand beauty that charm us in the masters of the Renaissance. Byforcing his talent to a certain extent, he abated something of his amazes us by the originality of his combinations, but he no longermoves us as in familiar scenes better suited to his temperament. Theabsence of his characteristic merits emphasises his defects, hiseccentricities and vulgarities, his tendency to crowd his compositions 126 REMBRANDT with a bewildering mass of details. Yet his sincerity is unquestionable,and, as he says in the letter already quoted, he believed he had putinto these works as much of life and reality as possible. But suchqua
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