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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... to create exaggerated form and bold fore - shortening ; an inclination to fill empty space with sumptuos ; objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect. ( To page 18. ) HEAD OF A BISHOP . In the Dresden Gallery . 12.
... to create exaggerated form and bold fore - shortening ; an inclination to fill empty space with sumptuos ; objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect. ( To page 18. ) HEAD OF A BISHOP . In the Dresden Gallery . 12.
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Hermann Knackfuss. 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 ...
Hermann Knackfuss. 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 ...
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... objects of so much weight are not convenient , and moreover - to be frank - we all have human weak- we sometimes change our tastes , and so my fancy has suddenly taken another turn and has gone over from the sculptors to the painters ...
... objects of so much weight are not convenient , and moreover - to be frank - we all have human weak- we sometimes change our tastes , and so my fancy has suddenly taken another turn and has gone over from the sculptors to the painters ...
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... other artists : for it is well known that he himself was a first rate painter of landscapes . It was apparently also during these years that he began to paint pictures some where the landscape was the chief object and the. 7 * 99.
... other artists : for it is well known that he himself was a first rate painter of landscapes . It was apparently also during these years that he began to paint pictures some where the landscape was the chief object and the. 7 * 99.
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Hermann Knackfuss. some where the landscape was the chief object and the figures only accessories . We find such works mentioned for the first time in a list dated 1625 , two of which are now in the Royal Galleries at Windsor . One of ...
Hermann Knackfuss. some where the landscape was the chief object and the figures only accessories . We find such works mentioned for the first time in a list dated 1625 , two of which are now in the Royal Galleries at Windsor . One of ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Rubens Volume 9 of Monographs on artists ... IX |
| Author | Hermann Knackfuss |
| Translated by | Luise Marie Schwab Richter |
| Publisher | Velhagen & Klasing, 1904 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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