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 18
... completion of a triptych for the Jesuit - Church . The centre - piece represented the Trinity , the two wings the Baptism and Transfiguration of Christ . At the taking of Mantua by the French in 1797 these three pictures were carried ...
... completion of a triptych for the Jesuit - Church . The centre - piece represented the Trinity , the two wings the Baptism and Transfiguration of Christ . At the taking of Mantua by the French in 1797 these three pictures were carried ...
Page 22
... completing the altar - piece , which he had , as we have already seen , begon two years before . When however it was set up in its place , the light proved so unfavourable to it , that he re- solved to replace it by another work . He ...
... completing the altar - piece , which he had , as we have already seen , begon two years before . When however it was set up in its place , the light proved so unfavourable to it , that he re- solved to replace it by another work . He ...
Page 34
... completion of the picture , 8 florins 10 stübers were paid for a pair of gloves as a present for his wife . Rubens ' Descent from the Cross is a well known and much admired picture . The dead Christ lowered in a white sheet is ...
... completion of the picture , 8 florins 10 stübers were paid for a pair of gloves as a present for his wife . Rubens ' Descent from the Cross is a well known and much admired picture . The dead Christ lowered in a white sheet is ...
Page 36
... completion Dutch and Flemish painters realized that it was no longer necessary to go to Italy to see first rate works of art . On the two wings are painted the Visitation and Presentation in the Temple : and on Fig . 28 . their outer ...
... completion Dutch and Flemish painters realized that it was no longer necessary to go to Italy to see first rate works of art . On the two wings are painted the Visitation and Presentation in the Temple : and on Fig . 28 . their outer ...
Page 75
... completion of the Church of the Jesuits at Antwerp in the year 1620 brought Rubens very extensive commissions . On the 20th March in that year he signed a contract with Father Jacobus Tirinus. ( To page 78. ) In the Hermitage at St ...
... completion of the Church of the Jesuits at Antwerp in the year 1620 brought Rubens very extensive commissions . On the 20th March in that year he signed a contract with Father Jacobus Tirinus. ( To page 78. ) In the Hermitage at St ...
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