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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In the same collection is a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , conceived
apparently with an expression of tenderness . This painting , if tradition is to be
believed , represents his mother ( Fig . 1 ) and we may therefore conclude that it ...
In the same collection is a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , conceived
apparently with an expression of tenderness . This painting , if tradition is to be
believed , represents his mother ( Fig . 1 ) and we may therefore conclude that it ...
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His copies of the portrait of Isabella d ' Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory at
Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show
how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at the same ...
His copies of the portrait of Isabella d ' Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory at
Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show
how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at the same ...
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Virgin - Saints stand on cither side of the throne as ladies in waiting , whilst in a
flood of light child - angels joyously hover around it . In the two wings the
Archduke and his Archduchess on their knees , clad in royal robes , and with their
Patrons ...
Virgin - Saints stand on cither side of the throne as ladies in waiting , whilst in a
flood of light child - angels joyously hover around it . In the two wings the
Archduke and his Archduchess on their knees , clad in royal robes , and with their
Patrons ...
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Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 34 . MELEAGER AND ATALANTA . In the Pinakothek
at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich . (
To page 47 . ) Fig . 35 . LADY AND CHILD ( probably Isabella.
Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 34 . MELEAGER AND ATALANTA . In the Pinakothek
at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich . (
To page 47 . ) Fig . 35 . LADY AND CHILD ( probably Isabella.
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Fig . 35 . LADY AND CHILD ( probably Isabella Brant with her son Albrecht ) . In
the Picture Gallery at Dresden . After a photograph from the original by Braun ,
Clément & Co . , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 48 . ) a work now in
the ...
Fig . 35 . LADY AND CHILD ( probably Isabella Brant with her son Albrecht ) . In
the Picture Gallery at Dresden . After a photograph from the original by Braun ,
Clément & Co . , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 48 . ) a work now in
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 | H. Grevel & Company, 1904 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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