The children's book of art (1909) (14595721899)

Identifier: childrensbookofa00conw (find matches)
Title: The children's book of art
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Conway, Agnes Ethel Conway, Martin, Sir
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : Adam and Charles Black
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library



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vished his usual pains-taking care. But when he put it in the sun to dry,the panel cracked down the middle. After this dis-appointment Hubert went to work and invented anew substance with which colours are made liquid,a • medium as it is called, which when mixed withcolour dried hard and quickly. It was possible topaint with the new medium in finer detail thanbefore, and the Flemish artists universally adoptedit. While very little was remembered about thefacts of Hubert van Eycks life, his name was alwaysassociated with the discovery of a new method ofpainting, and on that account held in great honour.The s Three Maries is in many respects the mostattractive of the pictures ascribed to Hubert, buthis most famous work was a larger picture, orassemblage of pictures framed together, the Adora-tion of the Lamb, in St. Bavons Church at Ghent.It is an altar-piece—a painting set up over an altarm a church or chapel to aid the devotions of thoseworshipping there. Many of the panels of the
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w W H wsH THE VAN EYCKS 57 Ghent altar-piece are now in the Museums ofBerlin and Brussels. They belonged to thewings or shutters which were made to closeover the central parts, and which used also to bepainted outside and inside with devotional orrelated subjects. The four great central panels onwhich these shutters used to close are still atGhent. The subject of the Adoration of theLamb was taken from Revelations, where beforethe Lamb has opened the seals of the book, St.John says: And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth,and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all thatare in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory,and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, andunto the Lamb for ever and ever. Hubert has figured this verse by assembling, asin one time and place, representatives of Christen-dom. They who worship are the prophets,apostles, popes, martyrs, and virgins. On eachside of the central panel the just judges, thesoldiers of Chr