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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... Italian , and English . We know from Balthasar Mo- retus , a celebrated printer of the time , that Rubens was esteemed in his school as much for his intellectual quali- ties as for the amiability of his character . For a time he was ...
... Italian , and English . We know from Balthasar Mo- retus , a celebrated printer of the time , that Rubens was esteemed in his school as much for his intellectual quali- ties as for the amiability of his character . For a time he was ...
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... Italian art at that time . In 1598 Peter Paul Rubens was admitted into the guild of St. Luke . We do not know however much about his early work ; although the Holy Trinity in the Museum at Antwerp is generally regarded as one of his ...
... Italian art at that time . In 1598 Peter Paul Rubens was admitted into the guild of St. Luke . We do not know however much about his early work ; although the Holy Trinity in the Museum at Antwerp is generally regarded as one of his ...
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... Italy . A lengthy stay in Italy was regarded at that time as an indispensable factor in the education of a painter . Rubens started on the 9th of May 1600 on his Italian travels . He first went to Venice where the works of the masters ...
... Italy . A lengthy stay in Italy was regarded at that time as an indispensable factor in the education of a painter . Rubens started on the 9th of May 1600 on his Italian travels . He first went to Venice where the works of the masters ...
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... Italian Masters . His copies of the portrait of Isabella d'Este , now in the Museum of Art- History at Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show how minutely Rubens had studied that great ...
... Italian Masters . His copies of the portrait of Isabella d'Este , now in the Museum of Art- History at Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show how minutely Rubens had studied that great ...
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... Italy . Numbers of his paintings prove how deeply he was impressed by the great Italian master - pieces and how much enjoyment he derived from them . We need only mention a picture in the Hermitage Christ in the House of Simon , which ...
... Italy . Numbers of his paintings prove how deeply he was impressed by the great Italian master - pieces and how much enjoyment he derived from them . We need only mention a picture in the Hermitage Christ in the House of Simon , which ...
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