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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Page 12
... beautiful , but it certainly shows an original masterhand ; an overwhelming and exuberant power , tending to create exaggerated form and bold fore - shortening ; an inclination to fill empty space with sumptuous objects ; a display of ...
... beautiful , but it certainly shows an original masterhand ; an overwhelming and exuberant power , tending to create exaggerated form and bold fore - shortening ; an inclination to fill empty space with sumptuous objects ; a display of ...
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... beautiful still is the other picture in the Berlin Museum . It is true that the figure of Andromeda is here perhaps less attractive ; but on the other hand , the cupids , especially those laying around the white horse are more ...
... beautiful still is the other picture in the Berlin Museum . It is true that the figure of Andromeda is here perhaps less attractive ; but on the other hand , the cupids , especially those laying around the white horse are more ...
Page 47
... beautiful huntress , whilst Envy lurks in the background . Another representation of the same subject is at Munich , rendered even more attractive by the addition of magnificent grey - hounds and a fine landscape ( Fig . 34 ) . It was ...
... beautiful huntress , whilst Envy lurks in the background . Another representation of the same subject is at Munich , rendered even more attractive by the addition of magnificent grey - hounds and a fine landscape ( Fig . 34 ) . It was ...
Page 56
... ( painted from life ) with Satyrs and Nymphs , - also an original by himself , -except the beautiful landscape , which was executed " by a master much skilled in that line " , 9 feet by II , for 600 florins . Other 56.
... ( painted from life ) with Satyrs and Nymphs , - also an original by himself , -except the beautiful landscape , which was executed " by a master much skilled in that line " , 9 feet by II , for 600 florins . Other 56.
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Hermann Knackfuss. Achilles disguised as a Woman , an impressive picture with many beautiful young female figures ; a St. Sebastian and a Susanna . Carleton then wrote to Rubens that he had selected six pictures . And further invited the ...
Hermann Knackfuss. Achilles disguised as a Woman , an impressive picture with many beautiful young female figures ; a St. Sebastian and a Susanna . Carleton then wrote to Rubens that he had selected six pictures . And further invited the ...
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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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