. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. f His passion, andon His face the marks ofHis protracted agony, Hecomes forth from the landof shadows. Wrappedin His winding-sheet oflinen, He approaches themourner, faithful when somany failed. Mary endea-vours to kiss the hem ofHis garment. She stretches forth detaining hands. But the Saviourskingdom is not of this world. He does not repulse her, but, with agesture of benevolent authority, pronounces the warning Noli metangere. The two solitary figures, the one illuminated by the lightthat shines from the other, the vague outlines, the melancho
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. f His passion, andon His face the marks ofHis protracted agony, Hecomes forth from the landof shadows. Wrappedin His winding-sheet oflinen, He approaches themourner, faithful when somany failed. Mary endea-vours to kiss the hem ofHis garment. She stretches forth detaining hands. But the Saviourskingdom is not of this world. He does not repulse her, but, with agesture of benevolent authority, pronounces the warning Noli metangere. The two solitary figures, the one illuminated by the lightthat shines from the other, the vague outlines, the melancholy of theplace and hour, the majesty of death, the ineffable fusion of loveand awe, together with countless other traits, conceived withinfinite delicacy, and rendered with matchless eloquence, appeal tothe soul and move it to its uttermost depths. In the intervals of these important undertakings, Rembrandt painteda few portraits of friends, and fancy studies, such as the Minerva^in the Hermitage, which to judge by the breadth of the handling;. THE SPANISH GIPST. 1647 (B. 120).
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