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Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size in the Museum of Art - History at Vienna . A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at Munich also shows his method of executing portraits ( Fig .
Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size in the Museum of Art - History at Vienna . A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at Munich also shows his method of executing portraits ( Fig .
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These last are also still in the Madrid Gallery , but the figure of Christ himself has disappeared . Later replicas of these thirteen pictures are to be found at the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome , while a number of drawings for them are ...
These last are also still in the Madrid Gallery , but the figure of Christ himself has disappeared . Later replicas of these thirteen pictures are to be found at the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome , while a number of drawings for them are ...
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The whole attention of the spectator is attracted by this figure alone ; for all the other figures are unimportant . Their whole attention appears to be directed to raising the heavy cross , and preventing it from slipping from its ...
The whole attention of the spectator is attracted by this figure alone ; for all the other figures are unimportant . Their whole attention appears to be directed to raising the heavy cross , and preventing it from slipping from its ...
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Great attention is bestowed upon the figure of St. Mary Magdalen , for whom the .artist having a predilection , created a special type . This attractive figure , - a maiden with a fine complexion and very fair hair.
Great attention is bestowed upon the figure of St. Mary Magdalen , for whom the .artist having a predilection , created a special type . This attractive figure , - a maiden with a fine complexion and very fair hair.
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Through decades of years this same attractive figure reappears unchanged ; no matter whether freely created from his imagination , or whether recalling an image transfigured by remembrance , it certainly seems to have been Rubens ...
Through decades of years this same attractive figure reappears unchanged ; no matter whether freely created from his imagination , or whether recalling an image transfigured by remembrance , it certainly seems to have been Rubens ...
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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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