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Updated: April 30, 2025

Then we go north again, to Dürer's Adoration of the Magi, a picture full of pleasant detail a little mountain town here, a knight in difficulties with his horse there, two butterflies close to the Madonna and interesting also for the treatment of the main theme in Dürer's masterly careful way; and then to Spain to Spagnoletto's "S. Jerome" in sombre chiaroscuro; then north again to a painfully real Christ crowned with thorns, by Lucas van Leyden, and the mousy, Reynoldsy, first wife of Peter Paul Rubens, while a Van Dyck portrait under a superb Domenichino and an "Adam and Eve" by Lucas Cranach complete the northern group.

E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas - A Wanderer in Florence