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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Virgin - Saints stand on cither side of the throne as ladies in waiting , whilst in a flood of light child - angels joyously hover around it . In the two wings the Archduke and his Archduchess on their knees , clad in royal robes ...
Virgin - Saints stand on cither side of the throne as ladies in waiting , whilst in a flood of light child - angels joyously hover around it . In the two wings the Archduke and his Archduchess on their knees , clad in royal robes ...
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We ought also to relate here a pleasing anecdote : how She once assembled into the artist's presence all her court - ladies to obtain his opinion on er their respective beauty ; and how the lady who seemed.
We ought also to relate here a pleasing anecdote : how She once assembled into the artist's presence all her court - ladies to obtain his opinion on er their respective beauty ; and how the lady who seemed.
Page 92
This certainly seems to have been the case with a drawing of one of the Archduchess Isabella's fascinating ladies - in - waiting ; a sketch which belongs to the artist's early period ( Fig . 76 ) : and also with another of a French ...
This certainly seems to have been the case with a drawing of one of the Archduchess Isabella's fascinating ladies - in - waiting ; a sketch which belongs to the artist's early period ( Fig . 76 ) : and also with another of a French ...
Page 130
... so successful in copying from the master's sketches , executed , and which Rubens himself undertook to publish . The subject is treated with great freedom . A number of elegant cavaliers and ladies , dressed in the luxurious fashion ...
... so successful in copying from the master's sketches , executed , and which Rubens himself undertook to publish . The subject is treated with great freedom . A number of elegant cavaliers and ladies , dressed in the luxurious fashion ...
Page 142
... but composed with much greater freedom is now in the Imperial Museum at Vienna under the name of the Rural Feast , wherein , in the foreground a number of elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen are revelling in social pastimes .
... but composed with much greater freedom is now in the Imperial Museum at Vienna under the name of the Rural Feast , wherein , in the foreground a number of elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen are revelling in social pastimes .
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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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