And the big news is also old news: the unrivaled genius of the Netherland ish artists and the inventive vitality of a cul ture that saw the natural and the supernatu ral worlds as mirror images.

And the big new is also old news: the unrivaled genius of the Netherlandish artists and the inventive vitality of a culture that saw the natural and the supernatural worlds as mirror images.

No one would listen to him then--and now the intellectual elite of the nation were honoring him as an unrivaled genius.