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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It was as if the cold marble awoke to life before his soul : and it was under such
impressions that he executed those translations of ancient portraits which in 1638
were multiplied by Vosterman , P . Pontius , H . Witdoek and Schelte a Bolswert ...
It was as if the cold marble awoke to life before his soul : and it was under such
impressions that he executed those translations of ancient portraits which in 1638
were multiplied by Vosterman , P . Pontius , H . Witdoek and Schelte a Bolswert ...
Page 141
One sheet , which was missing in this publication , was subsequently etched by
Schelte a Bolswert . Whilst Rubens for this work drew largely from the
inexhaustible sources of his unequalled imaginative power , displaying his great
talent in ...
One sheet , which was missing in this publication , was subsequently etched by
Schelte a Bolswert . Whilst Rubens for this work drew largely from the
inexhaustible sources of his unequalled imaginative power , displaying his great
talent in ...
Page 156
120 . THE Holy Family . In the Wallraf - Richartz Museum at Cologne . and again
in many other Engraving by Schelte a Bolswert . ( To page 148 . ) pictures of the
master . But tradition is certainly wrong in asserting that in this picture — the date
...
120 . THE Holy Family . In the Wallraf - Richartz Museum at Cologne . and again
in many other Engraving by Schelte a Bolswert . ( To page 148 . ) pictures of the
master . But tradition is certainly wrong in asserting that in this picture — the date
...
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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 | H. Grevel & Company, 1904 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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