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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His grand - father was a dispensing chemist , who also owned a grocer's shop ;
but his father was educated to a learned profession . Johann Rubens was born in
1530 , studied law at Louvain and Padua , and took the degree of Doctor of Civil
...
His grand - father was a dispensing chemist , who also owned a grocer's shop ;
but his father was educated to a learned profession . Johann Rubens was born in
1530 , studied law at Louvain and Padua , and took the degree of Doctor of Civil
...
Page 11
... form no judgement whatever , since no picture now extant can with any
certainty be attributed to him . For another four years Rubens studied with van
Veen , at that time regarded as " the Prince of Flemish Painting " . This very
learned and ...
... form no judgement whatever , since no picture now extant can with any
certainty be attributed to him . For another four years Rubens studied with van
Veen , at that time regarded as " the Prince of Flemish Painting " . This very
learned and ...
Page 39
The evenings were devoted to his friends ; for he kept an open and hospitable
house and specially enjoyed intercourse with learned men . According to one of
his biographers his house was regulated with the strictness almost of a convent .
The evenings were devoted to his friends ; for he kept an open and hospitable
house and specially enjoyed intercourse with learned men . According to one of
his biographers his house was regulated with the strictness almost of a convent .
Page 96
To name one example only out of many , let us take the portrait painted in 1624 of
Rubens ' learned friend Dr. van Thulden , now in the Pinakothek at Munich . This
portrait clearly shows that Rubens thoroughly understood the representation of ...
To name one example only out of many , let us take the portrait painted in 1624 of
Rubens ' learned friend Dr. van Thulden , now in the Pinakothek at Munich . This
portrait clearly shows that Rubens thoroughly understood the representation of ...
Page 118
The eldest was taken charge of by Johann Kaspar Gevaerts , town - clerk of
Antwerp and Historian to the Emperor Ferdinand III .; a learned man , celebrated
for his historical acquirements , whose portrait by the hand of his artist friend has
...
The eldest was taken charge of by Johann Kaspar Gevaerts , town - clerk of
Antwerp and Historian to the Emperor Ferdinand III .; a learned man , celebrated
for his historical acquirements , whose portrait by the hand of his artist friend has
...
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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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