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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which are still to be seen over the high - altar , representing the Queen of Heaven with three Saints on either hand . He reserved for himself however the picture that he had first painted , in which , besides the two Patrons of the ...
which are still to be seen over the high - altar , representing the Queen of Heaven with three Saints on either hand . He reserved for himself however the picture that he had first painted , in which , besides the two Patrons of the ...
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For this act the Queen of Heaven herself descended into his cathedral in visible shape and presented him with a mantle of celestial texture . The Archbishop is represented here on his knees before a throne , which occupies the centre of ...
For this act the Queen of Heaven herself descended into his cathedral in visible shape and presented him with a mantle of celestial texture . The Archbishop is represented here on his knees before a throne , which occupies the centre of ...
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In the beginning of 1622 he came to Paris to make arrangements with the Queen herself : and it was on this occasion that he most probably painted the fine portrait of her now in the Museum at Madrid ( Fig . 68 ) .
In the beginning of 1622 he came to Paris to make arrangements with the Queen herself : and it was on this occasion that he most probably painted the fine portrait of her now in the Museum at Madrid ( Fig . 68 ) .
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The face is here idealized to harmonize with the helmet of the goddess : - although otherwise the Queen always appears in her own likeness ; — full of youthful charm in the scenes from her early ...
The face is here idealized to harmonize with the helmet of the goddess : - although otherwise the Queen always appears in her own likeness ; — full of youthful charm in the scenes from her early ...
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Queen is overcome by the sight of her firstborn , and where at the Reconciliation she smiles at him through her tears . The whole work is one great thought , executed according to the . spirit of the period , and is a creation which ...
Queen is overcome by the sight of her firstborn , and where at the Reconciliation she smiles at him through her tears . The whole work is one great thought , executed according to the . spirit of the period , and is a creation which ...
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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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