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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... 1 . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich . ( To page 13. ) Fig . 2. THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL . Drawing. ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek at Munich . ( To page 13. ) 6.
... 1 . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich . ( To page 13. ) Fig . 2. THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL . Drawing. ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek at Munich . ( To page 13. ) 6.
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... there be no other resource , I shall implore them to have pity upon me , although you have forbidden me to do so . We ask not for justice , but only for mercy . If we cannot obtain Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In. 7.
... there be no other resource , I shall implore them to have pity upon me , although you have forbidden me to do so . We ask not for justice , but only for mercy . If we cannot obtain Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In. 7.
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Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich . that , what is there to be done ? Oh ! heavenly and merciful father ! thou wilt help ...
Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich . that , what is there to be done ? Oh ! heavenly and merciful father ! thou wilt help ...
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... against the Spanish Supre- macy . It was therefore only Fig . 4 . by sacrificing all but £ 120 of the security that. DEMOCRITOS , from a series of antique portrait - heads . Engraving by L. Vostermann . ( To page 16. ) ( To page 16. ) 9.
... against the Spanish Supre- macy . It was therefore only Fig . 4 . by sacrificing all but £ 120 of the security that. DEMOCRITOS , from a series of antique portrait - heads . Engraving by L. Vostermann . ( To page 16. ) ( To page 16. ) 9.
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