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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Page 38
He fashioned a sumptuous Palace in the late Renaissance style , which he
further furnished with princely splendour ; and in the garden erected a richly
adorned circular building to contain his own art - treasures and antique marbles .
He fashioned a sumptuous Palace in the late Renaissance style , which he
further furnished with princely splendour ; and in the garden erected a richly
adorned circular building to contain his own art - treasures and antique marbles .
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He found therein an opportunity for rich display and picturesque profusion :
representing the Oriental Kings with great splendour , attended by a most brilliant
suite . In the execution of this subject he succeeded in producing a great variety
of ...
He found therein an opportunity for rich display and picturesque profusion :
representing the Oriental Kings with great splendour , attended by a most brilliant
suite . In the execution of this subject he succeeded in producing a great variety
of ...
Page 70
It was no easy task for a painter of voluptuous splendour ; who loved to portray
Saints of youthful beauty clad in brillant silks ; to have to represent an ascetic
monk : but the artist , who could , if he pleased , do anything , well understood
how to ...
It was no easy task for a painter of voluptuous splendour ; who loved to portray
Saints of youthful beauty clad in brillant silks ; to have to represent an ascetic
monk : but the artist , who could , if he pleased , do anything , well understood
how to ...
Page 76
If there be such a thing as a Jesuit style in painting , Rubens certainly was its
greatest master ; for he thoroughly understood how to represent splendour and
magnificence , though at the same time his genius never allowed itself to be lost
in ...
If there be such a thing as a Jesuit style in painting , Rubens certainly was its
greatest master ; for he thoroughly understood how to represent splendour and
magnificence , though at the same time his genius never allowed itself to be lost
in ...
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... up the Real with the Unreal , the Historical with the Mythological and
Symbolical ; the Christian with the Heathen , Idea . In those times it would have
been impossible not to have surrounded the Life of a Queen with the splendours
of allegory ...
... up the Real with the Unreal , the Historical with the Mythological and
Symbolical ; the Christian with the Heathen , Idea . In those times it would have
been impossible not to have surrounded the Life of a Queen with the splendours
of allegory ...
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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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