Excerpt from Homes, Haunts, and Works of Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, and Cuyp; The Dutch Genre-Painters; Michael Angelo and Raffaelle: Being a Series of Art-Rambles in Belgium, Holland and Italy Either for pleasure, for health, or for literary and artistic pur poses, he frequently visited the Continent; selecting, generally, those countries which he could most advantageously lay under con tribution for the joint action of pen and pencil - places peculiarly attractive to the artist and antiquarian, either from their historic interest, and their picturesque character, or as the residence of those whose names are enrolled among the great painters and sculptors of the world. The Low Countries, and some of the old cities of Germany, such as Nuremberg, were his favourite localities for a month's ramble, and he would come back from them with a multitude of characteristic sketches of what he saw, and with his note-book well stored with intelligent comment, the result of active research and judicious investigation. Italy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.