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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Above all he enjoyed representing scenes from Antique Mythology . ... different
representations of the Liberation of Andromeda , apparently painted about the
same period ( 1610 - - 1615 ) , rank among his happiest mythological creations .
Above all he enjoyed representing scenes from Antique Mythology . ... different
representations of the Liberation of Andromeda , apparently painted about the
same period ( 1610 - - 1615 ) , rank among his happiest mythological creations .
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If we look for dates on Rubens ' pictures we may find a mythological painting of
Jupiter and Callisto in the Gallery at Cassel , dated 1613 ; and another delicious
little night - piece , representing the Flight into Egypt in the same collection ,
dated ...
If we look for dates on Rubens ' pictures we may find a mythological painting of
Jupiter and Callisto in the Gallery at Cassel , dated 1613 ; and another delicious
little night - piece , representing the Flight into Egypt in the same collection ,
dated ...
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Mythology always seemed to give him new ideas : and he enjoyed representing
wild scenes , such as the Abduction of Orithyia by Boreas , the North - Wind , now
in the Academy of Vienna , or the Rape of the Daughters of Leucippos by Castor
...
Mythology always seemed to give him new ideas : and he enjoyed representing
wild scenes , such as the Abduction of Orithyia by Boreas , the North - Wind , now
in the Academy of Vienna , or the Rape of the Daughters of Leucippos by Castor
...
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We find her again in a very similar attitude , though in a much larger mythological
composition , among the Daughters of Cecrops discovering the child
Erechthonios . Here she is one of the two maidens , who , in defiance of the
command of ...
We find her again in a very similar attitude , though in a much larger mythological
composition , among the Daughters of Cecrops discovering the child
Erechthonios . Here she is one of the two maidens , who , in defiance of the
command of ...
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If , in the present day , a somewhat depreciatory judgment has been passed upon
these work of the master , it is perhaps chiefly due to his having mixed up the
Real with the Unreal , the Historical with the Mythological and Symbolical ; the ...
If , in the present day , a somewhat depreciatory judgment has been passed upon
these work of the master , it is perhaps chiefly due to his having mixed up the
Real with the Unreal , the Historical with the Mythological and Symbolical ; the ...
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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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