RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages This 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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... . If there be no other resource , I shall implore them to have pity upon me , although you have forbidden me to We ask not for justice , but only for mercy . If we cannot obtain do So. Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In. 7.
... . If there be no other resource , I shall implore them to have pity upon me , although you have forbidden me to We ask not for justice , but only for mercy . If we cannot obtain do So. Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In. 7.
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Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich . that , what is there to be done ? Oh ! heavenly and merciful father ! thou wilt help ...
Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich . that , what is there to be done ? Oh ! heavenly and merciful father ! thou wilt help ...
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... 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 , con- ceived apparently with an ...
... 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 , con- ceived apparently with an ...
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... young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at the same time he never lost his own individuality . For his works are not merely copies , but rather ...
... young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at the same time he never lost his own individuality . For his works are not merely copies , but rather ...
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... young artist seems to have been also attracted by antique marbles and especially by old Greek and After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22. ) Fig . 11 ABRAHAM AND ...
... young artist seems to have been also attracted by antique marbles and especially by old Greek and After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22. ) Fig . 11 ABRAHAM AND ...
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