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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We ought also to relate here a pleasing anecdote : how She once assembled into the artist's presence all her court - ladies to obtain his opinion on their respective beauty ; and how the lady who seemed. 90 The Duke of Buckingham In the ...
We ought also to relate here a pleasing anecdote : how She once assembled into the artist's presence all her court - ladies to obtain his opinion on their respective beauty ; and how the lady who seemed. 90 The Duke of Buckingham In the ...
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In Munich there is a Death of Seneca , a gloomy composition in accordance with the spirit of the subject , and at Buckingham Palace a Pythagoras lecturing to his pupils . Besides these scenes taken from profane History , there are also ...
In Munich there is a Death of Seneca , a gloomy composition in accordance with the spirit of the subject , and at Buckingham Palace a Pythagoras lecturing to his pupils . Besides these scenes taken from profane History , there are also ...
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It was at the court of Maria de Medici and through the acquaintanceship made there with the Duke of Buckingham that first inspired Rubens with the desire to occupy himself seriously , and not merely occasionally , with the entangled ...
It was at the court of Maria de Medici and through the acquaintanceship made there with the Duke of Buckingham that first inspired Rubens with the desire to occupy himself seriously , and not merely occasionally , with the entangled ...
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No sooner had Buckingham made the acquaintance of the muchcourted Dutch painter , for whom he always subsequently entertained a great regard , than he desired to have his portrait painted by him . Rubens executed the grand equestrian ...
No sooner had Buckingham made the acquaintance of the muchcourted Dutch painter , for whom he always subsequently entertained a great regard , than he desired to have his portrait painted by him . Rubens executed the grand equestrian ...
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In the autumn of 1625 , when the Duke of Buckingham in the name of Charles I. had come over to negotiate with the United Provinces of the Netherlands , he had seen in Antwerp Rubens ' splendid Collection of Art , and had expressed a ...
In the autumn of 1625 , when the Duke of Buckingham in the name of Charles I. had come over to negotiate with the United Provinces of the Netherlands , he had seen in Antwerp Rubens ' splendid Collection of Art , and had expressed a ...
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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 | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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