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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O God ! may that never be ! My soul is so much in sympathy with yours and in
union with you , that Fig . 2 . THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . Fig . 1 .
ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST ' S MOTHER . Fig . 15 . THE ILDEFONSO
Altar .
O God ! may that never be ! My soul is so much in sympathy with yours and in
union with you , that Fig . 2 . THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . Fig . 1 .
ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST ' S MOTHER . Fig . 15 . THE ILDEFONSO
Altar .
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My soul is so much in sympathy with yours and in union with you , that Fig . 2 .
THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S
MOTHER . In the Pinakothek at Munich . Fig . 15. THE ILDEFONSO ALTAR .
My soul is so much in sympathy with yours and in union with you , that Fig . 2 .
THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S
MOTHER . In the Pinakothek at Munich . Fig . 15. THE ILDEFONSO ALTAR .
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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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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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