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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... ; 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 harmonious colouring and pictorial effect. 1227.
... ; 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 harmonious colouring and pictorial effect. 1227.
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Hermann Knackfuss. objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect : and a strong task for soft and shining flesh - tints , the shadows in which graduate almost to the red of the blood . Another early work is the ...
Hermann Knackfuss. objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect : and a strong task for soft and shining flesh - tints , the shadows in which graduate almost to the red of the blood . Another early work is the ...
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... displays himself at the height of his artistic developement . Archduke Albrecht had founded at Brussels in honour of St. Ildefonso an aristocratic Brotherhood , to whom he had given an altar in his own church dedicated to " St. James on ...
... displays himself at the height of his artistic developement . Archduke Albrecht had founded at Brussels in honour of St. Ildefonso an aristocratic Brotherhood , to whom he had given an altar in his own church dedicated to " St. James on ...
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... display and picturesque profusion : representing the Oriental Kings with great splendour , attended by a most brilliant suite . In the execution of this subject he succeeded in producing a great variety of new and powerful effects . Of ...
... display and picturesque profusion : representing the Oriental Kings with great splendour , attended by a most brilliant suite . In the execution of this subject he succeeded in producing a great variety of new and powerful effects . Of ...
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... display of trophies , prisoners and heaps of spoil & c .: whilst extended in the foreground , on a bier bedecked with purple and wreaths of bag , lies the dead leader . In spite of his inexhaustible powers of invention the painter did ...
... display of trophies , prisoners and heaps of spoil & c .: whilst extended in the foreground , on a bier bedecked with purple and wreaths of bag , lies the dead leader . In spite of his inexhaustible powers of invention the painter did ...
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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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