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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The Museum at Antwerp possesses a larger replica of this picture with a landscape background by the " velvet " Breughel . As a rule , however , inscribed dates are very rare on pictures by Rubens . Moreover , they do not tell us much ...
The Museum at Antwerp possesses a larger replica of this picture with a landscape background by the " velvet " Breughel . As a rule , however , inscribed dates are very rare on pictures by Rubens . Moreover , they do not tell us much ...
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The Pinakothek at Munich possesses not only the splendid sketch of the master , ( drawn by the painter's own hand ) , for the smaller Last Judgment , but also the sketch for the larger composition , erected in the year 1617 over the ...
The Pinakothek at Munich possesses not only the splendid sketch of the master , ( drawn by the painter's own hand ) , for the smaller Last Judgment , but also the sketch for the larger composition , erected in the year 1617 over the ...
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48 ) shows another adaptation of this favourite subject : the Destruction of the Hosts of Assyrian : whilst the Munich Pinakothek possesses a com- panion picture to the Defeat of Sennacherib , representing the Conversion of St. Paul ...
48 ) shows another adaptation of this favourite subject : the Destruction of the Hosts of Assyrian : whilst the Munich Pinakothek possesses a com- panion picture to the Defeat of Sennacherib , representing the Conversion of St. Paul ...
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After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . vast number of times , and the Munich Pinakothek possesses a replica , though in a much smaller size ( Fig . 59 ) .
After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . vast number of times , and the Munich Pinakothek possesses a replica , though in a much smaller size ( Fig . 59 ) .
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The Imperial Picture - Gallery at Vienna possesses two of these sketches ; one by Sebastian Vrancx , who , like Rubens before him , was a pupil of Adam van Noort ; the other , executed in 1665 , by Anton Geringh .
The Imperial Picture - Gallery at Vienna possesses two of these sketches ; one by Sebastian Vrancx , who , like Rubens before him , was a pupil of Adam van Noort ; the other , executed in 1665 , by Anton Geringh .
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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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