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 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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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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... mounted , in wild despair ride over the bodies of their dead companions into
the water ; whence others have already tried to gain safety by swimming . In the
distance Fig . 56 . THE Toilet of Venus . In 68 Maria de Medici In the Prado at
Madrid.
... mounted , in wild despair ride over the bodies of their dead companions into
the water ; whence others have already tried to gain safety by swimming . In the
distance Fig . 56 . THE Toilet of Venus . In 68 Maria de Medici In the Prado at
Madrid.
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at his death : for instance , one over - life - size of Charles the Bold , and another
of the Emperor Maximilian I . Moreover , a picture which probably also owes its
existence to the same circumstance is the painting in the Museum at Madrid ...
at his death : for instance , one over - life - size of Charles the Bold , and another
of the Emperor Maximilian I . Moreover , a picture which probably also owes its
existence to the same circumstance is the painting in the Museum at Madrid ...
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The task of depicting a great crowd in the most varied attitudes and situations ,
however extravagant , has never yet proved too much for me . " MRC Fig . 68 .
MARIA DE MEDICI . In the Prado at Madrid . After a photograph from the original
by ...
The task of depicting a great crowd in the most varied attitudes and situations ,
however extravagant , has never yet proved too much for me . " MRC Fig . 68 .
MARIA DE MEDICI . In the Prado at Madrid . After a photograph from the original
by ...
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