{‘The Baroque’ [Extracts from source text with ms notes][continued (31)]}[11th May 1991]

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*I was in half a mind to leave this one out [from the the ms photocopy of the chapter on the Baroque from the Encyclopedia of Visual Arts] altogether – especially as the [illustration on] the other side [of the source page (The Presentation in the Temple by Rembrandt, 1631ce, not reproduced in the ts)] reproduces hardly at all [in the ms]. I’ve seen men like this in [the Regiment]. (The black and white repro[duction*** in the ms]** shows the essence of the character)

[A certain, perhaps slightly cynical confidence from knowing that one has been trained to, and has, killed one or more men in ‘fair fight’ and could do so again; and that the observer knows that]

**Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals; oil on canvas; 86x69cm (34x27in); 1624[ce]. Wallace Collection, London.

[As illustrated in Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:713, in colour (of which see below for black and white reproduction);*** this colour reproduction (above) from Wikipedia]

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