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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RUBENS BY H. KNACKFUSS TRANSLATED BY LOUISE M. RICHTER WITH 122 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PICTURES AND DRAWINGS JcK BIELEFELD AND LEIPZIG VELHAGEN & KLASING NEW YORK . LEMCKE & BUECHNER 1904 HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PRINTED BY FISCHER ...
RUBENS BY H. KNACKFUSS TRANSLATED BY LOUISE M. RICHTER WITH 122 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PICTURES AND DRAWINGS JcK BIELEFELD AND LEIPZIG VELHAGEN & KLASING NEW YORK . LEMCKE & BUECHNER 1904 HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PRINTED BY FISCHER ...
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... atelier of Adam van Noort , an artist much praised by his contemporaries for his dexterity in painting , but of whose talent we now form no judgement whatever , since no picture now extant can any certainty be attributed to him .
... atelier of Adam van Noort , an artist much praised by his contemporaries for his dexterity in painting , but of whose talent we now form no judgement whatever , since no picture now extant can any certainty be attributed to him .
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It must be admitted , that this picture taken as a whole , is neither satisfactory nor beautiful , but it certainly shows an original masterhand ; an overwhelming and exuberant power , tending to create exaggerated form and bold fore ...
It must be admitted , that this picture taken as a whole , is neither satisfactory nor beautiful , but it certainly shows an original masterhand ; an overwhelming and exuberant power , tending to create exaggerated form and bold fore ...
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with a salary of 400 ducats per annum : and we know that Rubens painted for him a number of fine portraits , besides various other pictures . In the year 1601 he was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters .
with a salary of 400 ducats per annum : and we know that Rubens painted for him a number of fine portraits , besides various other pictures . In the year 1601 he was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters .
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For his works are not merely copies , but rather faithful translations into his own language of colour and form ; especially the Dresden picture , where one may even detect in the fair Venetian something of his own Flemish ideals of ...
For his works are not merely copies , but rather faithful translations into his own language of colour and form ; especially the Dresden picture , where one may even detect in the fair Venetian something of his own Flemish ideals of ...
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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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