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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PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In the Pinakothek at Munich . how come soon
enough . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstäng ) , Munich . To
be always thinking ( To page 13. ) of death and dreading death is than death
itself .
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In the Pinakothek at Munich . how come soon
enough . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstäng ) , Munich . To
be always thinking ( To page 13. ) of death and dreading death is than death
itself .
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A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at Munich also shows his
method of executing portraits ( Fig . 3 ) at this early period . In the same collection
is a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , conceived apparently with an ...
A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at Munich also shows his
method of executing portraits ( Fig . 3 ) at this early period . In the same collection
is a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , conceived apparently with an ...
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His copies of the portrait of Isabella d'Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory at
Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show
how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at the same time
...
His copies of the portrait of Isabella d'Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory at
Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show
how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at the same time
...
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. )
ABRAHAM AND ...
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. )
ABRAHAM AND ...
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Side by side with these vigorous drawings , we should also mention the noble
sketch of an old man with a beard , which probably served as a model for some
holy bishop and well illustrates the method employed by the young Rubens in .
his ...
Side by side with these vigorous drawings , we should also mention the noble
sketch of an old man with a beard , which probably served as a model for some
holy bishop and well illustrates the method employed by the young Rubens in .
his ...
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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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