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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... reason that Peter Paul Rubens thought himself justified in stating : that he had passed the first 10 years of his life in Cologne . It is therefore not to be wondered at , that for centuries Cologne was supposed to have been his ...
... reason that Peter Paul Rubens thought himself justified in stating : that he had passed the first 10 years of his life in Cologne . It is therefore not to be wondered at , that for centuries Cologne was supposed to have been his ...
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... reason that Rubens during his stay in Rome studied antique art as well as the works of the great Fig . 10. PORTRAIT OF A FRANCISCAN MONK In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photopraph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich ...
... reason that Rubens during his stay in Rome studied antique art as well as the works of the great Fig . 10. PORTRAIT OF A FRANCISCAN MONK In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photopraph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl , Munich ...
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... reason with an otherwise so admirably executed a painting . Rubens was commissioned to paint it for the Church of St. Francis , by the major Nicolas Rockox with whom he was on terms of intimate friendship . An excellent portrait of this ...
... reason with an otherwise so admirably executed a painting . Rubens was commissioned to paint it for the Church of St. Francis , by the major Nicolas Rockox with whom he was on terms of intimate friendship . An excellent portrait of this ...
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... thoroughly tired of the war , and would be con- tent to lay down their arms . . That is why the Marquis Spinola so firmly resolved either to capture Breda , or to bury his corpse and his honour in its defences " . It stands to reason that.
... thoroughly tired of the war , and would be con- tent to lay down their arms . . That is why the Marquis Spinola so firmly resolved either to capture Breda , or to bury his corpse and his honour in its defences " . It stands to reason that.
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Hermann Knackfuss. in its defences " . It stands to reason that Rubens did not carry on these negotiations wholly on his own account , but that he acted at the instigation of the Infanta Isabella . It is certainly strange that this ...
Hermann Knackfuss. in its defences " . It stands to reason that Rubens did not carry on these negotiations wholly on his own account , but that he acted at the instigation of the Infanta Isabella . It is certainly strange that this ...
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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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