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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These last are also still in the Madrid Gallery , but the figure of Christ himself has
disappeared . Later replicas of ... in the Museum at Nancy , while the Baptism ,
much repainted , found its way in 1876 to the Gallery of Antwerp . In the year
1605 ...
These last are also still in the Madrid Gallery , but the figure of Christ himself has
disappeared . Later replicas of ... in the Museum at Nancy , while the Baptism ,
much repainted , found its way in 1876 to the Gallery of Antwerp . In the year
1605 ...
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... and is now in the Museum Fig . 21 . PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN MAN . In
the Gallery at Cassel . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hansstäng ) ,
Munich . ( To page 39 . ) at Madrid . Commissioned about the same time by the ...
... and is now in the Museum Fig . 21 . PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN MAN . In
the Gallery at Cassel . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hansstäng ) ,
Munich . ( To page 39 . ) at Madrid . Commissioned about the same time by the ...
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at his death : for instance , one over - life - size of Charles the Bold , and another
of the Emperor Maximilian I . Moreover , a picture which probably also owes its
existence to the same circumstance is the painting in the Museum at Madrid ...
at his death : for instance , one over - life - size of Charles the Bold , and another
of the Emperor Maximilian I . Moreover , a picture which probably also owes its
existence to the same circumstance is the painting in the Museum at Madrid ...
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In the beginning of 1622 he came to Paris to make arrangements 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 ...
In the beginning of 1622 he came to Paris to make arrangements 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 ...
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... whose portrait by the hand of his artist friend has come down to us and is now
in the Antwerp Museum . To him the master wrote from Madrid on December 29 .
1628 : “ Pray keep my little Albert where you keep my picture , not in your oratory
...
... whose portrait by the hand of his artist friend has come down to us and is now
in the Antwerp Museum . To him the master wrote from Madrid on December 29 .
1628 : “ Pray keep my little Albert where you keep my picture , not in your oratory
...
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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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