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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... scenes from Antique Mythology . Indeed he would not have belonged to the educated class of his time had he not possessed as thorough a knowledge Typogravure Hartstaeng of the histories of Roman and Greek gods and heroes as he had of the ...
... scenes from Antique Mythology . Indeed he would not have belonged to the educated class of his time had he not possessed as thorough a knowledge Typogravure Hartstaeng of the histories of Roman and Greek gods and heroes as he had of the ...
Page 46
... give him new ideas : and he enjoyed representing wild scenes , such as the Abduction of Orithyia by Boreas , the North - Wind , now in the Academy of Vienna , or the Rape of the Daughters מ be of Leucippos by Castor and Pollux , now. 46.
... give him new ideas : and he enjoyed representing wild scenes , such as the Abduction of Orithyia by Boreas , the North - Wind , now in the Academy of Vienna , or the Rape of the Daughters מ be of Leucippos by Castor and Pollux , now. 46.
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... scenes from boar - hunts , the joint work of Rubens and Snyders ( Fig . 38 ) . It was , however , only for expedition , and because he was so overburdened with work , not of necessity , that he thus sought the help of his friend in ...
... scenes from boar - hunts , the joint work of Rubens and Snyders ( Fig . 38 ) . It was , however , only for expedition , and because he was so overburdened with work , not of necessity , that he thus sought the help of his friend in ...
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... scenes from the lives of the two SS . John : the Baptist and the Evangelist . Cardinal Richelieu offered 10,000 florins for these works alone , but the parishionors firmly declined his offer . Another painting , of a different type ...
... scenes from the lives of the two SS . John : the Baptist and the Evangelist . Cardinal Richelieu offered 10,000 florins for these works alone , but the parishionors firmly declined his offer . Another painting , of a different type ...
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... scene ; whilst Mary Magdalen , clinging to the cross and resting her head and body against it , holds up her white arms to ward off the Roman with his cruel weapon ( Fig . 58 ) . In this picture , known by the name of Coup de lance , it ...
... scene ; whilst Mary Magdalen , clinging to the cross and resting her head and body against it , holds up her white arms to ward off the Roman with his cruel weapon ( Fig . 58 ) . In this picture , known by the name of Coup de lance , it ...
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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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