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womanly charm in close contrast . In the Gallery at Cassel there is a splendid subject with a half - figure of Meleager presenting the bristling head of the Calydonian boar to the beautiful huntress , whilst Envy lurks in the background ...
womanly charm in close contrast . In the Gallery at Cassel there is a splendid subject with a half - figure of Meleager presenting the bristling head of the Calydonian boar to the beautiful huntress , whilst Envy lurks in the background ...
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If the Gods and Goddesses appear occasionally too much like overdressed theatrical personages , they invariably delight the spectator with the charm of their healthy vitality . Splendid personifications of Rubens ' ideal of female ...
If the Gods and Goddesses appear occasionally too much like overdressed theatrical personages , they invariably delight the spectator with the charm of their healthy vitality . Splendid personifications of Rubens ' ideal of female ...
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The face is here idealized to harmonize with the helmet of the goddess : - although otherwise the Queen always appears in her own likeness ; - full of youthful charm in the scenes from her early life and as a stately matron in her later ...
The face is here idealized to harmonize with the helmet of the goddess : - although otherwise the Queen always appears in her own likeness ; - full of youthful charm in the scenes from her early life and as a stately matron in her later ...
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... named drawing was a preparatory study is now in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg : and , in spite of the fact that it has been only grounded and has remained unfinished , it nevertheless clearly shows the charm that this great master ...
... named drawing was a preparatory study is now in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg : and , in spite of the fact that it has been only grounded and has remained unfinished , it nevertheless clearly shows the charm that this great master ...
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... its fascinating charm of glowing colour . The most productive and brilliant period of the artist's career was perhaps , between the years 1620 and 1625 ; for , notwithstanding the pressure of work , which those two vast undertakings ...
... its fascinating charm of glowing colour . The most productive and brilliant period of the artist's career was perhaps , between the years 1620 and 1625 ; for , notwithstanding the pressure of work , which those two vast undertakings ...
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| Title | Rubens Added t.-p.: Monographs on artists ... IX 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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