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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The young artist seems to have been also attracted by antique marbles and
especially by old Greek and After a photograph from the original by Braun ,
Clément & Co . , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22 . ) Fig . 11
ABRAHAM AND ...
The young artist seems to have been also attracted by antique marbles and
especially by old Greek and After a photograph from the original by Braun ,
Clément & Co . , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22 . ) Fig . 11
ABRAHAM AND ...
Page 18
It seems that he considered the artist the fittest personage to deliver certain
presents intended for King Philip III . and his minister the Duke of Lerma . The
voyage was not favoured with fine weather , for it rained uncessantly for twenty
days .
It seems that he considered the artist the fittest personage to deliver certain
presents intended for King Philip III . and his minister the Duke of Lerma . The
voyage was not favoured with fine weather , for it rained uncessantly for twenty
days .
Page 22
... represents , it would seem , the Apotheosis of that Prince : a young hero
victorious over Envy and Discord receives from the Goddess of Victory a Crown
of Bay . Rubens dealt with the same subject a variety of times , but it is impossible
to say ...
... represents , it would seem , the Apotheosis of that Prince : a young hero
victorious over Envy and Discord receives from the Goddess of Victory a Crown
of Bay . Rubens dealt with the same subject a variety of times , but it is impossible
to say ...
Page 38
Through decades of years this same attractive figure reappears unchanged ; no
matter whether freely created from his imagination , or whether recalling an
image transfigured by remembrance , it certainly seems to have been Rubens '
ideal ...
Through decades of years this same attractive figure reappears unchanged ; no
matter whether freely created from his imagination , or whether recalling an
image transfigured by remembrance , it certainly seems to have been Rubens '
ideal ...
Page 48
The head of a child in the Liechtenstein Collection at Vienna , is , no doubt , a
likeness of Rubens ' eldest daughter who , with her clear almond - shaped eyes
and amiably expressive mouth , seems the very image of her mother ( Fig . 36 ) .
The head of a child in the Liechtenstein Collection at Vienna , is , no doubt , a
likeness of Rubens ' eldest daughter who , with her clear almond - shaped eyes
and amiably expressive mouth , seems the very image of her mother ( Fig . 36 ) .
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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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