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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Page 18
... completion of a triptych for the Jesuit - Church . The centre - piece represented the Trinity , the two wings the Baptism and Transfiguration of Christ . At the taking of Mantua by the French in 1797 these three pictures were carried ...
... completion of a triptych for the Jesuit - Church . The centre - piece represented the Trinity , the two wings the Baptism and Transfiguration of Christ . At the taking of Mantua by the French in 1797 these three pictures were carried ...
Page 22
... completing the altar - piece , which he had , as we have already seen , begon two years before . When however it was set up in its place , the light proved so unfavourable to it , that he re- solved to replace it by another work . He ...
... completing the altar - piece , which he had , as we have already seen , begon two years before . When however it was set up in its place , the light proved so unfavourable to it , that he re- solved to replace it by another work . He ...
Page 34
... completed the St. Ilde- fonso altar - piece , he executed another work for the Walpurgis - church at Ant- werp ... completion of the picture , 8 florins 10 stübers were paid for a pair of gloves as a present for his wife . Rubens ...
... completed the St. Ilde- fonso altar - piece , he executed another work for the Walpurgis - church at Ant- werp ... completion of the picture , 8 florins 10 stübers were paid for a pair of gloves as a present for his wife . Rubens ...
Page 36
... completion Dutch and Flemish painters realized that it was no longer necessary to go to Italy to see first rate works of art . On the two wings are painted the Visitation and Presentation in the Temple : and on Fig . 28 . their outer ...
... completion Dutch and Flemish painters realized that it was no longer necessary to go to Italy to see first rate works of art . On the two wings are painted the Visitation and Presentation in the Temple : and on Fig . 28 . their outer ...
Page 61
... the Virgin , originally painted for the church of the Barefooted Friars ( Carmelites ) , but now in the Museum at Brussels , a work also completed entirely by himself . During the year 1617 was painted the picture in St. 61.
... the Virgin , originally painted for the church of the Barefooted Friars ( Carmelites ) , but now in the Museum at Brussels , a work also completed entirely by himself . During the year 1617 was painted the picture in St. 61.
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