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Page 16
The young artist seems to have been also attracted by antique marbles and especially by old Greek and Fig . 11 After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22. ) ...
The young artist seems to have been also attracted by antique marbles and especially by old Greek and Fig . 11 After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22. ) ...
Page 18
It seems that he considered the artist the fittest personage to deliver certain presents intended for King Philip III . and his minister the Duke of Lerma . The voyage was not favoured with fine weather , for it rained uncessantly for ...
It seems that he considered the artist the fittest personage to deliver certain presents intended for King Philip III . and his minister the Duke of Lerma . The voyage was not favoured with fine weather , for it rained uncessantly for ...
Page 22
... it would seem , the Apotheosis of that Prince : a young hero victorious over Envy and Discord receives from the Goddess of Victory a Crown of Bay . Rubens dealt with the same subject a variety of times , but it is impossible to say ...
... it would seem , the Apotheosis of that Prince : a young hero victorious over Envy and Discord receives from the Goddess of Victory a Crown of Bay . Rubens dealt with the same subject a variety of times , but it is impossible to say ...
Page 38
Through decades of years this same attractive figure reappears unchanged ; no matter whether freely created from his imagination , or whether recalling an image transfigured by remembrance , it certainly seems to have been Rubens ...
Through decades of years this same attractive figure reappears unchanged ; no matter whether freely created from his imagination , or whether recalling an image transfigured by remembrance , it certainly seems to have been Rubens ...
Page 48
The head of a child in the Liechtenstein Collection at Vienna , is , no doubt , a likeness of Rubens ' eldest daughter who , with her clear almond - shaped eyes and amiably expressive mouth , seems the very image of her mother ( Fig .
The head of a child in the Liechtenstein Collection at Vienna , is , no doubt , a likeness of Rubens ' eldest daughter who , with her clear almond - shaped eyes and amiably expressive mouth , seems the very image of her mother ( Fig .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Rubens Added t.-p.: Monographs on artists ... IX 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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