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Ccessfully ventured (what "none but great colourists can venture") "to
paint pure white linen near flesh." His Christ, continues Sir Joshua, "I
consider as one of the finest figures that ever was invented: it is most
correctly drawn, and I apprehend in an attitude of the utmost difficulty
to execute. The hanging of the head on His shoulder, and the falling of
the body on one side, gives such an appearance of the heaviness of
death, that nothing can exceed it." Antwerp, of course, is full of
magnificent paintings by Rubens, though unfortunately the house in which
he lived in the Place de Meir (which is traversed by the tram on its way
from the Est Station to the Place Verte), which was built by him in
1611, and in which he died in 1640, was almost entirely rebuilt in 1703.
There is another great Crucifixion by the master in the Picture Gallery,
or Palais des Beaux Arts, which illustrates his exceptional power as
well as his occasional brutality." The centurion, with his hands on the
nape of his horse's neck, is gazing with horror at the writhings of the
impenitent thief, whose legs are being broken with an iron bar, which
has so tortured the unhappy man that in his agony he has torn his left
foot from the nail." It is questionable whether any splendour of success
can ever justify a man in thus condescending to draw inspiration from
the torture-room or shambles. One would gladly spend more time in this
Antwerp gallery