. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. , on which Apolloand the nine Muses sup-ported Neptune, in allusion to the deliverance of Leyden, and theinundation by which she was saved. Simultaneously with these official fetes were held free markets,public games, and fairs, with their necessary following of mountebanksand bumpkins. Such sights and amusements must have afforded end-less subjects for study to an observer like Rembrandt. Mixing withthe crowd, he noted the manners and impressions of the populace, andseized upon those momentary effects of attitude and gesture which heafterwards r
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. , on which Apolloand the nine Muses sup-ported Neptune, in allusion to the deliverance of Leyden, and theinundation by which she was saved. Simultaneously with these official fetes were held free markets,public games, and fairs, with their necessary following of mountebanksand bumpkins. Such sights and amusements must have afforded end-less subjects for study to an observer like Rembrandt. Mixing withthe crowd, he noted the manners and impressions of the populace, andseized upon those momentary effects of attitude and gesture which heafterwards rendered with such amazing truth and eloquence. But it wasin the Town-hall that the student found enjoyment most congenial tohis tastes. It was thrown open to the public at these seasons, andthere, side by side with banners wrested from the enemy, and spoiltaken from the tent of Francesco de Valdez himself, Rembrandtstudied the two famous pictures of those Leyden painters who hadspent the greater part of their lives in his native town, Cornelis. BOTANICAL GARDENS OK LEVUEN UNIVEKSITV. (Afier an engraving by W. Swanenburch.) REMBRANDT Engelbrechtsz and his pupil, Lucas Huyghensz, better known as Lucasvan Leyden. Engelbrechtsz great triptych—the Crucifixion in thecentral panel, Abrahavis Sacrifice and the Brazen Serpent on thewings—painted for the Convent of Marienpoel, was preserved at theruin of the convent towards the end of the sixteenth century, andtaken under the guardianship of the municipality, by reason, saysVan Mander, of its value, and in memory of the eminent master and citizen, its author. Thework was, indeed, a re-markable one, and itsartistic merit justifies thehigh esteem in which itwas held. In the execu-tion, though its analogieswith that peculiar to thesuccessors of the VanEycks are, of course,striking, we find dawningtraces of features charac-teristically Dutch. Suchis the realism displayedin the portraits of thedonors, members of theMartini family, painted
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