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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... Museum at Antwerp is generally regarded as one of his first paintings . It represents the Dead Christ , supported by two angels and holding the symbols of his Passion , in the arms of God the Father above whom hovers the Holy Spirit ...
... Museum at Antwerp is generally regarded as one of his first paintings . It represents the Dead Christ , supported by two angels and holding the symbols of his Passion , in the arms of God the Father above whom hovers the Holy Spirit ...
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... Museum at Nancy , while the Baptism , much repainted , found its way in 1876 to the Gallery of Antwerp . In the year 1605 the Emperor Rudolf II . commissioned Rubens to copy two pictures by Correggio . In 1606 he was again in Rome ...
... Museum at Nancy , while the Baptism , much repainted , found its way in 1876 to the Gallery of Antwerp . In the year 1605 the Emperor Rudolf II . commissioned Rubens to copy two pictures by Correggio . In 1606 he was again in Rome ...
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Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 18. THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS . In the Antwerp Museum . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . as a time of apprenticeship , it was on returning to his ...
Hermann Knackfuss. Fig . 18. THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS . In the Antwerp Museum . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . as a time of apprenticeship , it was on returning to his ...
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... Museum of Art - History . In 1610 when , according to tradition , Rubens had completed the St. Ilde- fonso altar ... Antwerp . There is in the Louvre a drawing for this picture , giving an idea of the whole composition which , when ...
... Museum of Art - History . In 1610 when , according to tradition , Rubens had completed the St. Ilde- fonso altar ... Antwerp . There is in the Louvre a drawing for this picture , giving an idea of the whole composition which , when ...
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... Museum at Stockholm . The master's endeavour to introduce Italian Renaissance taste into his native town was not wholly unsuccessful , and many of the 17th century build- ings in Antwerp show this influence in their elaborate ...
... Museum at Stockholm . The master's endeavour to introduce Italian Renaissance taste into his native town was not wholly unsuccessful , and many of the 17th century build- ings in Antwerp show this influence in their elaborate ...
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