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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Hermann Knackfuss. PORTRAIT OF RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J. Löwy , Vienna . ( To page 13. )
Hermann Knackfuss. PORTRAIT OF RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J. Löwy , Vienna . ( To page 13. )
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ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich . ( To page 13. ) t Fig . 2. THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL .
ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich . ( To page 13. ) t Fig . 2. THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL .
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If there be no other resource , I shall implore them to have pity upon me , although you have forbidden me to do so . We ask not for justice , but only for mercy . If we cannot obtain Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In.
If there be no other resource , I shall implore them to have pity upon me , although you have forbidden me to do so . We ask not for justice , but only for mercy . If we cannot obtain Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In.
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PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstäng ] , Munich . that , what is there to be done ? Oh ! heavenly and merciful father ! thou wilt help us then !
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstäng ] , Munich . that , what is there to be done ? Oh ! heavenly and merciful father ! thou wilt help us then !
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... to help his brother in the war against the Spanish Supre- macy . It was therefore only by sacrificing all but £ 120 of the security that. Fig . 4. DEMOCRITOS , from a series of antique portrait - heads . Engraving by L. Vostermann .
... to help his brother in the war against the Spanish Supre- macy . It was therefore only by sacrificing all but £ 120 of the security that. Fig . 4. DEMOCRITOS , from a series of antique portrait - heads . Engraving by L. Vostermann .
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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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