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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Hermann Knackfuss. PORTRAIT OF RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J. Löwy , Vienna . ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek.
Hermann Knackfuss. PORTRAIT OF RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J. Löwy , Vienna . ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek.
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... Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 15. ) I suffer with the same pain that you are suffering . I believe that if these noble gentlemen could only see my ...
... Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 15. ) I suffer with the same pain that you are suffering . I believe that if these noble gentlemen could only see my ...
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... Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . soon showed themselves . At Antwerp the Art of painting was flourishing in spite of the fact that this town had become poor and ...
... Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . soon showed themselves . At Antwerp the Art of painting was flourishing in spite of the fact that this town had become poor and ...
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... Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . A perfect courtier , he was much esteemed by the Prince of Parma , whose court - painter he became . He produced some rather ...
... Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . A perfect courtier , he was much esteemed by the Prince of Parma , whose court - painter he became . He produced some rather ...
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... 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 oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , con ...
... 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 oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , con ...
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