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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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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... of the artist himself . We ought also to relate here a pleasing anecdote : how
She once assembled into the artist's presence all her court - ladies to obtain his
opinion on are er was their respective beauty ; and how the lady who seemed. 90
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... of the artist himself . We ought also to relate here a pleasing anecdote : how
She once assembled into the artist's presence all her court - ladies to obtain his
opinion on are er was their respective beauty ; and how the lady who seemed. 90
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This certainly seems to have been the case with a drawing of one of the
Archduchess Isabella's fascinating ladies - in - waiting ; a sketch which belongs
to the artist's early period ( Fig . 76 ) : and also with another of a French Marquis ,
whose ...
This certainly seems to have been the case with a drawing of one of the
Archduchess Isabella's fascinating ladies - in - waiting ; a sketch which belongs
to the artist's early period ( Fig . 76 ) : and also with another of a French Marquis ,
whose ...
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... already been so successful in copying from the master's sketches , executed ,
and which Rubens himself undertook to publish . The subject is treated with great
freedom . A number of elegant cavaliers and ladies , dressed in the luxurious ...
... already been so successful in copying from the master's sketches , executed ,
and which Rubens himself undertook to publish . The subject is treated with great
freedom . A number of elegant cavaliers and ladies , dressed in the luxurious ...
Page 142
... but composed with much greater freedom is now in the Imperial Museum at
Vienna under the name of the Rural Feast , wherein , in the foreground a number
of elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen are revelling in social pastimes .
... but composed with much greater freedom is now in the Imperial Museum at
Vienna under the name of the Rural Feast , wherein , in the foreground a number
of elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen are revelling in social pastimes .
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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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