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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... period of Revolution against the Spanish rule . Under the subsequent Governorship of the tyrannical Duke of Alba , when Counts Egmont and Horn suffered on the scaffold for their patriotism , Johann Rubens , suspected of leanings towards ...
... period of Revolution against the Spanish rule . Under the subsequent Governorship of the tyrannical Duke of Alba , when Counts Egmont and Horn suffered on the scaffold for their patriotism , Johann Rubens , suspected of leanings towards ...
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... period . In the same collection is a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , con- ceived apparently with an expression of tenderness . This painting , if tra- dition is to be believed , represents his mother ( Fig . 1 ) and we ...
... period . In the same collection is a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , con- ceived apparently with an expression of tenderness . This painting , if tra- dition is to be believed , represents his mother ( Fig . 1 ) and we ...
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... period , mention must be made of a very fine St. Sebastian in the Berlin Museum and an Inebriated Hercules in the Gallery at Cassel ; a larger replica of which is at Dresden . In 1608 we find the artist again in Rome , during which ...
... period , mention must be made of a very fine St. Sebastian in the Berlin Museum and an Inebriated Hercules in the Gallery at Cassel ; a larger replica of which is at Dresden . In 1608 we find the artist again in Rome , during which ...
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... period of his life during which he achieved his immortal fame . An armistice of twelve years , concluded in 1609 , gave peace at length to the sorely tried Netherlands . The true cultivation of Art now commenced and no longer met with ...
... period of his life during which he achieved his immortal fame . An armistice of twelve years , concluded in 1609 , gave peace at length to the sorely tried Netherlands . The true cultivation of Art now commenced and no longer met with ...
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... period ( 1610-1615 ) , rank among his happiest mytho- logical creations . One of these is in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg ; in which against the dark background of a precipice the hero. Fig . 31. BACCHANALIA . In the Liechtenstein ...
... period ( 1610-1615 ) , rank among his happiest mytho- logical creations . One of these is in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg ; in which against the dark background of a precipice the hero. Fig . 31. BACCHANALIA . In the Liechtenstein ...
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