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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... prince . Incontestible facts now prove that this event occurred in the little town of Siegen in Westphalia . The ancestors of Rubens had for centuries been settled in Antwerp as respectable burghers . His grand - father was a dispensing ...
... prince . Incontestible facts now prove that this event occurred in the little town of Siegen in Westphalia . The ancestors of Rubens had for centuries been settled in Antwerp as respectable burghers . His grand - father was a dispensing ...
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... Prince of Orange , who moreover was happily married once more . He supported in 1578 this petition by renouncing a part of the sum which , as we have seen above , had been paid as his security , and on the proceeds of which his family ...
... Prince of Orange , who moreover was happily married once more . He supported in 1578 this petition by renouncing a part of the sum which , as we have seen above , had been paid as his security , and on the proceeds of which his family ...
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... Prince of Parma . Indeed it seemed as if that unhappy city had sought solace for the loss of her liberty in the dreamland of art . So complete was her collapse under the Spanish dominion that her popu- lation had sunk from 85 000 to 55 ...
... Prince of Parma . Indeed it seemed as if that unhappy city had sought solace for the loss of her liberty in the dreamland of art . So complete was her collapse under the Spanish dominion that her popu- lation had sunk from 85 000 to 55 ...
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... Prince of Parma , whose court - painter he became . He produced some rather clever works in imi- tation of the then prevalent manneristic style of Italian art at that time . In 1598 Peter Paul Rubens was admitted into the guild of St ...
... Prince of Parma , whose court - painter he became . He produced some rather clever works in imi- tation of the then prevalent manneristic style of Italian art at that time . In 1598 Peter Paul Rubens was admitted into the guild of St ...
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... beauty of old marbles is best proved by the profiles of a Roman couple , now in the collection of Prince . Liechtenstein in Vienna ( Fig . 6 ) . There are also in the Albertina fine 2 14 male and female heads drawn from the antique. 16.
... beauty of old marbles is best proved by the profiles of a Roman couple , now in the collection of Prince . Liechtenstein in Vienna ( Fig . 6 ) . There are also in the Albertina fine 2 14 male and female heads drawn from the antique. 16.
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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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