RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages This 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 39
... Balthasar Moretus . This work was intended to be placed over the tomb of Moretus ' father in the Antwerp Cathe- dral , and it hangs there still . At that time the artist was mainly occupied in painting sacred subjects ; but nevertheless ...
... Balthasar Moretus . This work was intended to be placed over the tomb of Moretus ' father in the Antwerp Cathe- dral , and it hangs there still . At that time the artist was mainly occupied in painting sacred subjects ; but nevertheless ...
Page 44
... Balthasar Moretus . There were at that time a great many skilful engravers , who reproduced the designs of Rubens ' both in painting and drawing : and very many of these were also multiplied by etchings . The art of engraving , which in ...
... Balthasar Moretus . There were at that time a great many skilful engravers , who reproduced the designs of Rubens ' both in painting and drawing : and very many of these were also multiplied by etchings . The art of engraving , which in ...
Page 56
... Moretus Museum at Antwerp , wherein Balthasar Mo- retus states that Rubens makes designs for titlepages only in his leisure moments : so that if a drawing for such purpose was required of him on a workingday his price for it was 100 ...
... Moretus Museum at Antwerp , wherein Balthasar Mo- retus states that Rubens makes designs for titlepages only in his leisure moments : so that if a drawing for such purpose was required of him on a workingday his price for it was 100 ...
Page 124
... Balthasar Moretus we may see that in course of time he had become so shrewd a man of business , that he plainly and with much practical sense regulated the size of a painting and the number of figures according to the payment agreed on ...
... Balthasar Moretus we may see that in course of time he had become so shrewd a man of business , that he plainly and with much practical sense regulated the size of a painting and the number of figures according to the payment agreed on ...
Page 134
... Balthasar Moretus . Some were of relations ; others of celebrated men of past and present . Moretus ' residence , now known as the Plantin - Moretus Museum at Antwerp still possesses fourteen of these portraits , painted at different ...
... Balthasar Moretus . Some were of relations ; others of celebrated men of past and present . Moretus ' residence , now known as the Plantin - Moretus Museum at Antwerp still possesses fourteen of these portraits , painted at different ...
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