RubensThis 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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... on “ Rubens ” which in spite of its brevity , has gone through seven editions in Germany , in less than ten years still holds its own , beside more elaborate and ambitious works , published since on this great Flemish master .
... on “ Rubens ” which in spite of its brevity , has gone through seven editions in Germany , in less than ten years still holds its own , beside more elaborate and ambitious works , published since on this great Flemish master .
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O in was n a fine old mansion in the Sternengasse at Cologne , a marble slab But neither Cologne nor her rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour of having given birth to the Flemish artist - prince .
O in was n a fine old mansion in the Sternengasse at Cologne , a marble slab But neither Cologne nor her rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour of having given birth to the Flemish artist - prince .
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He acquired a wide general knowledge and spoke fluently no less than seven languages : Flemish , German , Latin , Spanish , French , Italian , and English . We know from Balthasar Moretus , a celebrated printer of the time , that Rubens ...
He acquired a wide general knowledge and spoke fluently no less than seven languages : Flemish , German , Latin , Spanish , French , Italian , and English . We know from Balthasar Moretus , a celebrated printer of the time , that Rubens ...
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... we can now form no judgement whatever , since no picture now extant can with any certainty be attributed to him . For another four years Rubens studied with van Veen , at that time regarded as " the Prince of Flemish Painting " .
... we can now form no judgement whatever , since no picture now extant can with any certainty be attributed to him . For another four years Rubens studied with van Veen , at that time regarded as " the Prince of Flemish Painting " .
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For his works are not merely copies , but rather faithful translations into his own language of colour and form ; especially the Dresden picture , where one may even detect in the fair Venetian something of his own Flemish ideals of ...
For his works are not merely copies , but rather faithful translations into his own language of colour and form ; especially the Dresden picture , where one may even detect in the fair Venetian something of his own Flemish ideals of ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Rubens Volume 9 of Monographs on artists ... IX |
| Author | Hermann Knackfuss |
| Translated by | Luise Marie Schwaab Richter |
| Publisher | Velhagen & Klasing, 1904 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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