The early Flemish painters: notices of their lives and works . E-i n 55 V W -d ^ d m 9 W (4 H ^. CHAP. VIII.] ROGER VAN DER WEYDEN. 199 on a rainbow, with his feet on the orb and angelsbeneath him sounding the last trump ; in two smallcompartments on a level with his seat are four angelscaiTying the emblems of the passion; lower down tothe right and left, the apostles, headed by the Virginand Baptist with PhiHp the Good, Eugenius the lYth,Jean Rollin, bishop of Autun, and Isabella of Portugal,and beneath them the figures of the accursed and blestrising from their graves, parted from each other
The early Flemish painters: notices of their lives and works . E-i n 55 V W -d ^ d m 9 W (4 H ^. CHAP. VIII.] ROGER VAN DER WEYDEN. 199 on a rainbow, with his feet on the orb and angelsbeneath him sounding the last trump ; in two smallcompartments on a level with his seat are four angelscaiTying the emblems of the passion; lower down tothe right and left, the apostles, headed by the Virginand Baptist with PhiHp the Good, Eugenius the lYth,Jean Rollin, bishop of Autun, and Isabella of Portugal,and beneath them the figures of the accursed and blestrising from their graves, parted from each other by , who weighs their souls in a balance; in theextremes are the gates of Paradise and the abode ofSatan. The composition of the central panel is the mostfaulty portion of the picture, the glory and the fore-ground being crowded together, instead of beingproperly parted; but the distribution of the saints inglory is extremely good; the lines are agreeable andin perspective, the figures well grouped together, andanimated in motion. The choice of expression in thevarious faces of th
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