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 13
... 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 . 3 ) at this early period . In the same collection is a sketch in ...
... 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 . 3 ) at this early period . In the same collection is a sketch in ...
Page 56
... life . Through them we are enabled to admire his extensive knowledge , his clearness of sight and the accuracy of ... size , value and the amount of cooperation upon each received by him from friends and pupils . There was a Chained ...
... life . Through them we are enabled to admire his extensive knowledge , his clearness of sight and the accuracy of ... size , value and the amount of cooperation upon each received by him from friends and pupils . There was a Chained ...
Page 57
... life - size Christ on the Cross , of which the artist says , that it was " perhaps the best picture he had ever painted " ; a smaller replica of the Palatine Last Judgment , the work of a pupil which , however , might pose as an ...
... life - size Christ on the Cross , of which the artist says , that it was " perhaps the best picture he had ever painted " ; a smaller replica of the Palatine Last Judgment , the work of a pupil which , however , might pose as an ...
Page 66
... life - size figures . In the first of these Decius Mus , standing on an elevated plat - form , relates his Dream to his soldiers : in which he had been shown that the Victory would be given to that army whose leader should perish . In ...
... life - size figures . In the first of these Decius Mus , standing on an elevated plat - form , relates his Dream to his soldiers : in which he had been shown that the Victory would be given to that army whose leader should perish . In ...
Page 78
... size represent scenes from the later Lives of the Saints with numerous life - size figures . In one of these the Founder of the Jesuit Order , St. Ignatius Loyola , in his priestly vestments stands beside an altar ; whilst near him are ...
... size represent scenes from the later Lives of the Saints with numerous life - size figures . In one of these the Founder of the Jesuit Order , St. Ignatius Loyola , in his priestly vestments stands beside an altar ; whilst near him are ...
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