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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objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect : and a strong task
for soft and shining flesh - tints , the shadows in which graduate almost to the red
of the blood . Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size ...
objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect : and a strong task
for soft and shining flesh - tints , the shadows in which graduate almost to the red
of the blood . Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size ...
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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 in the ...
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 in the ...
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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 intended position
.
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 intended position
.
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... it has nevertheless great merit . 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.
... it has nevertheless great merit . 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 '
ideal ...
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 '
ideal ...
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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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