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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RUBENS BY m H. KNACKFUSS TRANSLATED BY LOUISE M. RICHTER WITH 122 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PICTURES AND DRAWINGS JK BIELEFELD AND LEIPZIG VELHAGEN & KLASING LONDON H. GREVEL & CO . 33 , KING STREET , COVENT GARDEN , W. C. 1904 PRINTED BY ...
RUBENS BY m H. KNACKFUSS TRANSLATED BY LOUISE M. RICHTER WITH 122 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PICTURES AND DRAWINGS JK BIELEFELD AND LEIPZIG VELHAGEN & KLASING LONDON H. GREVEL & CO . 33 , KING STREET , COVENT GARDEN , W. C. 1904 PRINTED BY ...
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Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 15. ) I suffer with the same pain that you are suffering . I believe that if these noble ...
Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 15. ) I suffer with the same pain that you are suffering . I believe that if these noble ...
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... and the " Invention of the Cross " were the three pictures painted by Rubens on this occasion for this purpose . They remained in situ until 1811 , when Fig . 9. CHRIST , from a series of drawings : Christ and the twelve Apostles .
... and the " Invention of the Cross " were the three pictures painted by Rubens on this occasion for this purpose . They remained in situ until 1811 , when Fig . 9. CHRIST , from a series of drawings : Christ and the twelve Apostles .
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At the Louvre we find excellent drawings made by Rubens after Michelangelo's Prophets in the Sixtine Chapel . ... Titanic grandeur of the great Florentine are clearly visible in a drawing in the Albertina collection in Vienna ( Fig .
At the Louvre we find excellent drawings made by Rubens after Michelangelo's Prophets in the Sixtine Chapel . ... Titanic grandeur of the great Florentine are clearly visible in a drawing in the Albertina collection in Vienna ( Fig .
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Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . Roman portrait - busts . It was as if the cold marble awoke to life before his soul and it was under such impressions that he executed those trans- lations of ancient portraits which in 1638 were ...
Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . Roman portrait - busts . It was as if the cold marble awoke to life before his soul and it was under such impressions that he executed those trans- lations of ancient portraits which in 1638 were ...
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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 University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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