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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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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at Madrid . Commissioned about the same time by the reigning Prince of the Netherlands , Rubens executed another altar - piece , in which he displays himself at the height of his artistic developement . Archduke Albrecht had founded at ...
at Madrid . Commissioned about the same time by the reigning Prince of the Netherlands , Rubens executed another altar - piece , in which he displays himself at the height of his artistic developement . Archduke Albrecht had founded at ...
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... a picture which probably also owes its existence to the same circumstance is the painting in the Museum at Madrid representing the mediæval legend of Rudolf of Habsburg , commemorated in Schiller's famous Ballad .
... a picture which probably also owes its existence to the same circumstance is the painting in the Museum at Madrid representing the mediæval legend of Rudolf of Habsburg , commemorated in Schiller's famous Ballad .
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In the Prado at Madrid . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 86. ) It was in 1621 that he received a commission which , as regards variety and size , left nothing to ...
In the Prado at Madrid . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 86. ) It was in 1621 that he received a commission which , as regards variety and size , left nothing to ...
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In the beginning of 1622 he came to Paris to make arrangements with the Queen herself : and it was on this occasion that he most probably painted the fine portrait of her now in the Museum at Madrid ( Fig . 68 ) .
In the beginning of 1622 he came to Paris to make arrangements with the Queen herself : and it was on this occasion that he most probably painted the fine portrait of her now in the Museum at Madrid ( Fig . 68 ) .
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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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