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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His grand - father was a dispensing chemist , who also owned a grocer ' s shop ;
but his father was educated to a learned profession . Johann Rubens was born in
1530 , studied law at Louvain and Padua , and took the degree of Doctor of ...
His grand - father was a dispensing chemist , who also owned a grocer ' s shop ;
but his father was educated to a learned profession . Johann Rubens was born in
1530 , studied law at Louvain and Padua , and took the degree of Doctor of ...
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... whatever , since no picture now extant can with any certainty be attributed to
him . For another four years Rubens studied with van Veen , at that time regarded
as " the Prince of Flemish Painting ” . This very learned and distinguished ...
... whatever , since no picture now extant can with any certainty be attributed to
him . For another four years Rubens studied with van Veen , at that time regarded
as " the Prince of Flemish Painting ” . This very learned and distinguished ...
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were devoted to his friends ; for he kept an open and hospitable house and
specially enjoyed intercourse with learned men . According to one of his
biographers his house was regulated with the strictness almost of a convent .
Rubens painted ...
were devoted to his friends ; for he kept an open and hospitable house and
specially enjoyed intercourse with learned men . According to one of his
biographers his house was regulated with the strictness almost of a convent .
Rubens painted ...
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To name one example only out of many , let us take the portrait painted in 1624 of
Rubens ' learned friend Dr . van Thulden , now in the Pinakothek at Munich . This
portrait clearly shows that Rubens thoroughly understood the representation ...
To name one example only out of many , let us take the portrait painted in 1624 of
Rubens ' learned friend Dr . van Thulden , now in the Pinakothek at Munich . This
portrait clearly shows that Rubens thoroughly understood the representation ...
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The eldest was taken charge of by Johann Kaspar Gevaerts , town - clerk of
Antwerp and Historian to the Emperor Ferdinand III . ; a learned man , celebrated
for his historical acquirements , whose portrait by the hand of his artist friend has
...
The eldest was taken charge of by Johann Kaspar Gevaerts , town - clerk of
Antwerp and Historian to the Emperor Ferdinand III . ; a learned man , celebrated
for his historical acquirements , whose portrait by the hand of his artist friend has
...
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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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