Hulin de Loo, Georges: Early Flemish paintings in the Renders Collection at Bruges: exhibited at the Belgian Exhibition, Burlington House, January 1927 (London, 1927)

JAN GOSSART CALLED MABUSE. &£ THE INSTRU-
MENTS OF THE PASSION CARRIED BY SMALL ANGELS.
AN ORIGINAL? t : r t 1 * 1 : ;—
5% Oa\ panel : 31 centimeters high by 10,5 centimeters wide.

THESE small wings are of a double interest. First they
have a general meaning; better than any long dissert'
ations, they reveal, by simple comparison, the great
change that has taken place, in less than a century, in the
mentality of the artists of the Low Countries. Here the
subject is somewhat similar to the one in some of those
pretty pictures of archaic form in which, round a Crucifix,
we see angels flying about in a starry sky, carrying the
instruments of the Passion. In our former notice on the
Christ de Pitie we spoke of these scenes, which date approxim-
ately from the 15th. century. If one compares these angels
with our « putti » which were probably painted during the
first thirty years of the 16th. century, the complete revolution,
brought about by humanism and renaissance, in mind and
heart, in habits as well as in taste, will be seen at a glance.
On the one hand, all is feeling and mystical reverie; the
angels show a mere suggestion of body, they show life but
in their tender and serious expression, wholly subjugated as