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His attempts to impart to his own creations something of the Titanic grandeur of the great Florentine are clearly visible in a drawing in the Albertina collection in Vienna ( Fig . 2 ) , representing his two patrons , Saint ...
His attempts to impart to his own creations something of the Titanic grandeur of the great Florentine are clearly visible in a drawing in the Albertina collection in Vienna ( Fig . 2 ) , representing his two patrons , Saint ...
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The centre - piece represented the Trinity , the two wings the Baptism and Transfiguration of Christ . At the taking of Mantua by the French in 1797 these three pictures were carried away ; but the centreportion divided into two ...
The centre - piece represented the Trinity , the two wings the Baptism and Transfiguration of Christ . At the taking of Mantua by the French in 1797 these three pictures were carried away ; but the centreportion divided into two ...
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Rubens dealt with the same subject a variety of times , but it is impossible to say positively whether this hero is really meant to represent some known personage or not . We find similar pictures differing but slightly from each other ...
Rubens dealt with the same subject a variety of times , but it is impossible to say positively whether this hero is really meant to represent some known personage or not . We find similar pictures differing but slightly from each other ...
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which are still to be seen over the high - altar , representing the Queen of Heaven with three Saints on either hand . ... besides the two Patrons of the church , he had represented the Virgin with other Saints and Pope Gregory .
which are still to be seen over the high - altar , representing the Queen of Heaven with three Saints on either hand . ... besides the two Patrons of the church , he had represented the Virgin with other Saints and Pope Gregory .
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Two portrais of him by Peter - Paul exist , one of which is in the Pinakothek at Munich ; whilst the other representing both brothers with the celebrated Justus Lipsius Fig . 19 . and Hugo Grotius , is in the Pitti Palace at Florence .
Two portrais of him by Peter - Paul exist , one of which is in the Pinakothek at Munich ; whilst the other representing both brothers with the celebrated Justus Lipsius Fig . 19 . and Hugo Grotius , is in the Pitti Palace at Florence .
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| Title | Rubens Added t.-p.: Monographs on artists ... IX 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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