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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Page 23
... Queen of Heaven with three Saints on either hand . He reserved for himself how- ever the picture that he had first painted , in which , besides the two Patrons of the church , he had represented the Virgin with other Saints and Pope ...
... Queen of Heaven with three Saints on either hand . He reserved for himself how- ever the picture that he had first painted , in which , besides the two Patrons of the church , he had represented the Virgin with other Saints and Pope ...
Page 29
... Queen of Heaven herself descended into his cathedral in visible shape and presented him with a mantle of celestial texture . The Archbishop is represented here on his knees before a throne , which occupies the centre of the picture ...
... Queen of Heaven herself descended into his cathedral in visible shape and presented him with a mantle of celestial texture . The Archbishop is represented here on his knees before a throne , which occupies the centre of the picture ...
Page 86
... Queen herself : and it was on this occasion that he most probably painted the fine portrait of her now in the Museum at Madrid ( Fig . 68 ) . Three years later the paintings , representing various scenes from her life , with the ...
... Queen herself : and it was on this occasion that he most probably painted the fine portrait of her now in the Museum at Madrid ( Fig . 68 ) . Three years later the paintings , representing various scenes from her life , with the ...
Page 89
... Queen always appears in her own likeness ; -full of youthful charm in the scenes from her early life and as a stately matron in her later years . Fig . 71. THE RECONCILIATION . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . ( To page. 89.
... Queen always appears in her own likeness ; -full of youthful charm in the scenes from her early life and as a stately matron in her later years . Fig . 71. THE RECONCILIATION . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . ( To page. 89.
Page 90
... Queen is overcome by the sight of her first- born , and where at the Reconciliation she smiles at him through her tears . The whole work is one great thought , executed according to the spirit of the period , and is a creation which ...
... Queen is overcome by the sight of her first- born , and where at the Reconciliation she smiles at him through her tears . The whole work is one great thought , executed according to the spirit of the period , and is a creation which ...
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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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