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 44
... Breughel , one of his most loyal friends . A similar idea is to be found in a delightful sketch in the Hermitage Collection , known as the Statue of Ceres . Here exquisite baby - figures crowd around a niche containing a figure of the ...
... Breughel , one of his most loyal friends . A similar idea is to be found in a delightful sketch in the Hermitage Collection , known as the Statue of Ceres . Here exquisite baby - figures crowd around a niche containing a figure of the ...
Page 46
... Breughel . As a rule , however , inscribed dates are very rare on pictures by Rubens . Moreover , they do not tell us much ; for the master's power , when settled in Antwerp In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the ...
... Breughel . As a rule , however , inscribed dates are very rare on pictures by Rubens . Moreover , they do not tell us much ; for the master's power , when settled in Antwerp In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the ...
Page 48
... Breughel , -is unmistakeably also a portrait of Isa- bella and the infant Albrecht ( Fig . 37 ) . An ever increasing number of commissions compelled the master to avail himself of the help of his pupils in executing his pictures ...
... Breughel , -is unmistakeably also a portrait of Isa- bella and the infant Albrecht ( Fig . 37 ) . An ever increasing number of commissions compelled the master to avail himself of the help of his pupils in executing his pictures ...
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... Breughel , he frequently collaborated with Franz Snyders , unsurpassed as a painter of animals , who , born at Antwerp Fig . 42 . THE PUNISHMENT OF THE UNJUST . THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a ...
... Breughel , he frequently collaborated with Franz Snyders , unsurpassed as a painter of animals , who , born at Antwerp Fig . 42 . THE PUNISHMENT OF THE UNJUST . THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a ...
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... Breughel of flowers . It was again though only as a saving of time that he thus sought the help of other artists : for it is well known that he himself was a first rate painter of landscapes . It was apparently also during these years ...
... Breughel of flowers . It was again though only as a saving of time that he thus sought the help of other artists : for it is well known that he himself was a first rate painter of landscapes . It was apparently also during these years ...
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