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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We do not know however much about his early work ; although the Holy Trinity in
the Museum at Antwerp is generally regarded as one of his first paintings . It
represents the Dead Christ , supported by two angels and holding the symbols of
his ...
We do not know however much about his early work ; although the Holy Trinity in
the Museum at Antwerp is generally regarded as one of his first paintings . It
represents the Dead Christ , supported by two angels and holding the symbols of
his ...
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Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size in the Museum
of Art - History at 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 ...
Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size in the Museum
of Art - History at 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 ...
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His copies of the portrait of Isabella d'Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory at
Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show
how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at the same time
...
His copies of the portrait of Isabella d'Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory at
Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show
how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at the same time
...
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... the Museum at Nancy , while the Baptism , much repainted , found its way in
1876 to the Gallery of Antwerp . In the year 1605 the Emperor Rudolf II .
commissioned Rubens to copy two pictures by Correggio . In 1606 he was again
in Rome ...
... the Museum at Nancy , while the Baptism , much repainted , found its way in
1876 to the Gallery of Antwerp . In the year 1605 the Emperor Rudolf II .
commissioned Rubens to copy two pictures by Correggio . In 1606 he was again
in Rome ...
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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 | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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