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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Hermann Knackfuss. PORTRAIT OF RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial
Gallery at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J . Löwy , Vienna . Fig .
15 . THE ILDEFONSO Altar . In the.
Hermann Knackfuss. PORTRAIT OF RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial
Gallery at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J . Löwy , Vienna . Fig .
15 . THE ILDEFONSO Altar . In the.
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When we think of these sad family - events we cannot read without emotion the
eulogistic epitaph which his disconsolate widow inscribed upon his tombstone ,
still to be seen behind the altar in that church . She makes no allusion to their ...
When we think of these sad family - events we cannot read without emotion the
eulogistic epitaph which his disconsolate widow inscribed upon his tombstone ,
still to be seen behind the altar in that church . She makes no allusion to their ...
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He availed himself therefore of the opportunity afforded him by the presence in
the Eternal City of so artistically gifted a subject , with whom he no doubt became
acquainted through Otho van Veen , to present to his titular church three altar ...
He availed himself therefore of the opportunity afforded him by the presence in
the Eternal City of so artistically gifted a subject , with whom he no doubt became
acquainted through Otho van Veen , to present to his titular church three altar ...
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In 1606 he was again in Rome , where he began to paint an altar - piece for an
Oratory just built , known as the new church ( Chiesa Nuova ) . Before , however ,
he could finish it , he was recalled by the Duke of Mantua , in whose company in
...
In 1606 he was again in Rome , where he began to paint an altar - piece for an
Oratory just built , known as the new church ( Chiesa Nuova ) . Before , however ,
he could finish it , he was recalled by the Duke of Mantua , in whose company in
...
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Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 15 . THE ILDEFONSO Altar . In the Imperial Gallery at
Vienna . ( To page 30 . ) Fig . 17 . THE ELEYATION OF THE Cross . Portrait of an
unknown man In the Gallery at Cassel.
Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 15 . THE ILDEFONSO Altar . In the Imperial Gallery at
Vienna . ( To page 30 . ) Fig . 17 . THE ELEYATION OF THE Cross . Portrait of an
unknown man In the Gallery at Cassel.
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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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