RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages This biography of Peter Paul Rubens, written by German art historian Hermann Knackfuss, is considered to be the most authoritative text on the artist since its publication. |
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Page 22
... Berlin Museum and an Inebriated Hercules in the Gallery at Cassel ; a larger replica of which is at Dresden . In 1608 we find the artist again in Rome , during which visit he painted several works with direct reference to the Eternal ...
... Berlin Museum and an Inebriated Hercules in the Gallery at Cassel ; a larger replica of which is at Dresden . In 1608 we find the artist again in Rome , during which visit he painted several works with direct reference to the Eternal ...
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... uniting a marvellous chiaro - oscuro , with a brilliancy of colouring , which is almost Fig . 24. STUDIES OF PUTTI . Pen and ink. Fig . 23. PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA . In the Berlin Museum . ( To page 42. ) ( To page 42. ) ( To page 42. ) 30.
... uniting a marvellous chiaro - oscuro , with a brilliancy of colouring , which is almost Fig . 24. STUDIES OF PUTTI . Pen and ink. Fig . 23. PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA . In the Berlin Museum . ( To page 42. ) ( To page 42. ) ( To page 42. ) 30.
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... Berlin Museum . It is true that the figure of Andromeda is here perhaps less attractive ; but on the other hand , the cupids , especially those laying around the white horse Fig . 32. FAUN AND DIANA ( THE GIFTS OF AUTUMN ) . In the ...
... Berlin Museum . It is true that the figure of Andromeda is here perhaps less attractive ; but on the other hand , the cupids , especially those laying around the white horse Fig . 32. FAUN AND DIANA ( THE GIFTS OF AUTUMN ) . In the ...
Page 70
... Museum at Antwerp ( Fig . 53 ) . - Among the numerous pictures representing the Virgin Mary with the Infant Christ ... Berlin . Not less attractive is another drawing of him , at a still more tender age , in the Albertina , evidently a ...
... Museum at Antwerp ( Fig . 53 ) . - Among the numerous pictures representing the Virgin Mary with the Infant Christ ... Berlin . Not less attractive is another drawing of him , at a still more tender age , in the Albertina , evidently a ...
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... Berlin Museum . In this painting also , which is , however , far inferior to the Daughters of Cecrops , we may notice again the fair features of the Magdalen , though this time representing a nymph hiding in the water : the most ...
... Berlin Museum . In this painting also , which is , however , far inferior to the Daughters of Cecrops , we may notice again the fair features of the Magdalen , though this time representing a nymph hiding in the water : the most ...
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