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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... an overwhelming and exuberant power , tending to create exaggerated form and bold fore - shortening ; an inclination to fill empty space with sumptuok ; objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect.
... an overwhelming and exuberant power , tending to create exaggerated form and bold fore - shortening ; an inclination to fill empty space with sumptuok ; objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect.
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objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect : and a strong task for soft and shining flesh - tints , the shadows in which graduate almost to the red of the blood . Another early work is the Annunciation with figures ...
objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect : and a strong task for soft and shining flesh - tints , the shadows in which graduate almost to the red of the blood . Another early work is the Annunciation with figures ...
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Commissioned about the same time by the reigning Prince of the Netherlands , Rubens executed another altar - piece , in which he displays himself at the height of his artistic developement . Archduke Albrecht had founded at Brussels in ...
Commissioned about the same time by the reigning Prince of the Netherlands , Rubens executed another altar - piece , in which he displays himself at the height of his artistic developement . Archduke Albrecht had founded at Brussels in ...
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He found therein an opportunity for rich display and picturesque profusion : representing the Oriental Kings with great splendour , attended by a most brilliant suite . In the execution of this subject he succeeded in producing a great ...
He found therein an opportunity for rich display and picturesque profusion : representing the Oriental Kings with great splendour , attended by a most brilliant suite . In the execution of this subject he succeeded in producing a great ...
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The sixth and final tableau of the series is merely a brilliant display of trophies , prisoners and heaps of spoil & c .: whilst extended in the foreground , on a bier bedecked with purple and wreaths of bag , lies the dead leader .
The sixth and final tableau of the series is merely a brilliant display of trophies , prisoners and heaps of spoil & c .: whilst extended in the foreground , on a bier bedecked with purple and wreaths of bag , lies the dead leader .
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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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