Even his buildings look as though they might fall together any moment like a pack of cards.
Hubert not only gives landscape a larger place than it ever had in any great picture before, but he paints it with such skill and apparent confidence that we should never dream he was doing it almost for the first time.
St.Matthew says: 'As it began to _dawn_ towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the Sepulchre.' Even in this point Hubert wished to be accurate.

The rising sun is hidden behind the rocks on the left side of the picture, for it was not until years later that any painter ventured to paint the sun in the heavens.

But the rays from the hidden orb strike the castles on the hills with shafts of light.

The town remains in shadow, while the sky is lit up with floods of glory.

An effect such as this must have been very carefully studied from nature.