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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Hermann Knackfuss. PortraIT OF RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial Gallery
at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J. Löwy , Vienna . ALLEGED
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek.
Hermann Knackfuss. PortraIT OF RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial Gallery
at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J. Löwy , Vienna . ALLEGED
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek.
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... is so much in sympathy with yours and in union with you , that Fig . 2 . THE
APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S
MOTHER . In the Pinakothek at Munich . Fig . 15. THE ILDEFONSO ALTAR . In
the Imperial. 6.
... is so much in sympathy with yours and in union with you , that Fig . 2 . THE
APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S
MOTHER . In the Pinakothek at Munich . Fig . 15. THE ILDEFONSO ALTAR . In
the Imperial. 6.
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Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 15. THE ILDEFONSO ALTAR . In the Imperial Gallery
at Vienna . ( To page 30. ) THE ELEYATION OF THE Cross . From an engraving
by.
Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 15. THE ILDEFONSO ALTAR . In the Imperial Gallery
at Vienna . ( To page 30. ) THE ELEYATION OF THE Cross . From an engraving
by.
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In the Imperial Museum at Vienna . their outer side St. Christopher . This latter
subject Rubens repeated again in a picture now at Munich ( Fig . 19 ) . The idea
of Christ being thus carried is the binding link in all four representations : and the
...
In the Imperial Museum at Vienna . their outer side St. Christopher . This latter
subject Rubens repeated again in a picture now at Munich ( Fig . 19 ) . The idea
of Christ being thus carried is the binding link in all four representations : and the
...
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In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . The peculiarly attractive , and graciously
modelled figure of a woman , with hair and complexion shining , as it were , in
their own brilliance , so frequently painted by Rubens as Mary Magdalene ,
appears in ...
In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . The peculiarly attractive , and graciously
modelled figure of a woman , with hair and complexion shining , as it were , in
their own brilliance , so frequently painted by Rubens as Mary Magdalene ,
appears in ...
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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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