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 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 first paintings . It represents the Dead Christ , supported by two angels and holding the symbols ...
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 first paintings . It represents the Dead Christ , supported by two angels and holding the symbols ...
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Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size in the Museum of Art - History at Vienna . A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at Munich also shows his method of executing portraits ( Fig .
Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size in the Museum of Art - History at Vienna . A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at Munich also shows his method of executing portraits ( Fig .
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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 colourist , and how at ...
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 colourist , and how at ...
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The Transfiguration is in the Museum at Nancy , while the Baptism , much repainted , found its way in 1876 to the Gallery of Antwerp . In the year 1605 the Emperor Rudolf II . commissioned Rubens to copy two pictures by Correggio .
The Transfiguration is in the Museum at Nancy , while the Baptism , much repainted , found its way in 1876 to the Gallery of Antwerp . In the year 1605 the Emperor Rudolf II . commissioned Rubens to copy two pictures by Correggio .
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Among the pictures in Germany belonging to Rubens ' Italian period , mention must be made of a very fine St. Sebastian in the Berlin Museum and an Inebriated Hercules in the Gallery at Cassel ; a larger replica of which is at Dresden .
Among the pictures in Germany belonging to Rubens ' Italian period , mention must be made of a very fine St. Sebastian in the Berlin Museum and an Inebriated Hercules in the Gallery at Cassel ; a larger replica of which is at Dresden .
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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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