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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... beside more elaborate and ambitious works , published since on this great Flemish master . Its convenient form , combined with its numerous and attractive illustrations , have proved it to be well adapted as a guide to his work : and ...
... beside more elaborate and ambitious works , published since on this great Flemish master . Its convenient form , combined with its numerous and attractive illustrations , have proved it to be well adapted as a guide to his work : and ...
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... besides various other pictures . In the year 1601 he was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters . Whilst there he also received a commission from his own country . Archduke Albrecht of Austria , who had married Isabella ...
... besides various other pictures . In the year 1601 he was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters . Whilst there he also received a commission from his own country . Archduke Albrecht of Austria , who had married Isabella ...
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... besides thirteen single figures : Christ and his Twelve Apostles . These last are also still in the Madrid Gallery , but the figure of Christ himself has disappeared . Later replicas of these thirteen pictures are to be found at the ...
... besides thirteen single figures : Christ and his Twelve Apostles . These last are also still in the Madrid Gallery , but the figure of Christ himself has disappeared . Later replicas of these thirteen pictures are to be found at the ...
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... Besides other Italian masters , Giulio Romano , whose most important works are at Mantua , had a decided influence on Rubens . This is clearly shown in some of his pictures and drawings ( Fig . 11 ) . Nevertheless he understood how to ...
... Besides other Italian masters , Giulio Romano , whose most important works are at Mantua , had a decided influence on Rubens . This is clearly shown in some of his pictures and drawings ( Fig . 11 ) . Nevertheless he understood how to ...
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... besides the two Patrons of the church , he had represented the Virgin with other Saints and Pope Gregory . This painting he subsequently brought back to his own country and placed above the grave of his mother .. Fig . 16 . Drawing in ...
... besides the two Patrons of the church , he had represented the Virgin with other Saints and Pope Gregory . This painting he subsequently brought back to his own country and placed above the grave of his mother .. Fig . 16 . Drawing in ...
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| 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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