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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Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun
, Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 15. ) I suffer with the
same pain that you are suffering . I believe that if these noble gentlemen could ...
Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun
, Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 15. ) I suffer with the
same pain that you are suffering . I believe that if these noble gentlemen could ...
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In the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun ,
Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 18. ) A perfect
courtier , he was much esteemed by the Prince of Parma , whose court - painter
he became .
In the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun ,
Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 18. ) A perfect
courtier , he was much esteemed by the Prince of Parma , whose court - painter
he became .
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... the three pictures painted by Rubens on this occasion for this purpose . They
remained in situ until 1811 , when Fig . 9. CHRIST , from a series of drawings :
Christ and the twelve Apostles . In the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph
from ...
... the three pictures painted by Rubens on this occasion for this purpose . They
remained in situ until 1811 , when Fig . 9. CHRIST , from a series of drawings :
Christ and the twelve Apostles . In the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph
from ...
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... by Rubens after Michelangelo's Prophets in the Sixtine Chapel . His attempts to
impart to his own creations something of the Titanic grandeur of the great
Florentine are clearly visible in a drawing in the Albertina collection in Vienna (
Fig .
... by Rubens after Michelangelo's Prophets in the Sixtine Chapel . His attempts to
impart to his own creations something of the Titanic grandeur of the great
Florentine are clearly visible in a drawing in the Albertina collection in Vienna (
Fig .
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Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . Roman portrait - busts . It was as if the cold
marble awoke to life before his soul : and it was under such impressions that he
executed those translations of ancient portraits which in 1638 were multiplied by
...
Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . Roman portrait - busts . It was as if the cold
marble awoke to life before his soul : and it was under such impressions that he
executed those translations of ancient portraits which in 1638 were multiplied by
...
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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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