Excerpt from Art of the Netherlands and Germany: Five Hundred Reproductions Illustrating the Flemish, Dutch, and German Schools of Painting From the Early Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century; German Sculpture From the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Century The field of art is wide, and the ruggedness, even the gro tesqueness, of this northern art forms a suggestive pendant to the suavity, the idealism, of the southern and more classic art. Idealism and Realism - these are the two elements which have ever struggled for supremacy. From both the modern world learns to gather its enjoyment and its inspiration. 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.