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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The young artist seems to have been also attracted by antique marbles and especially by old Greek and Fig . 11 After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22. ) ...
The young artist seems to have been also attracted by antique marbles and especially by old Greek and Fig . 11 After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22. ) ...
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It seems that he considered the artist the fittest personage to deliver certain presents intended for King Philip III . and his minister the Duke of Lerma . The voyage was not favoured with fine weather , for it rained uncessantly for ...
It seems that he considered the artist the fittest personage to deliver certain presents intended for King Philip III . and his minister the Duke of Lerma . The voyage was not favoured with fine weather , for it rained uncessantly for ...
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... it would seem , the Apotheosis of that Prince : a young hero victorious over Envy and Discord receives from the Goddess of Victory a Crown of Bay . Rubens dealt with the same subject a variety of times , but it is impossible to say ...
... it would seem , the Apotheosis of that Prince : a young hero victorious over Envy and Discord receives from the Goddess of Victory a Crown of Bay . Rubens dealt with the same subject a variety of times , but it is impossible to say ...
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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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The head of a child in the Liechtenstein Collection at Vienna , is , no doubt , a likeness of Rubens ' eldest daughter who , with her clear almond - shaped eyes and amiably expressive mouth , seems the very image of her mother ( Fig .
The head of a child in the Liechtenstein Collection at Vienna , is , no doubt , a likeness of Rubens ' eldest daughter who , with her clear almond - shaped eyes and amiably expressive mouth , seems the very image of her mother ( Fig .
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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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