reubens's

Updated: June 2, 2025

Several artists were making copies of them. In the south transept hangs Reubens's masterpiece, The Descent from the Cross. Paul did not pretend to be a connoisseur in paintings, and could neither understand nor appreciate the fine writing he read about them in books, or the "hifalutin" which affected men bestowed upon them; but in the presence of the grand old painting, he was awed and silenced.

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