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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Fig . 15 . THE ILDEFONSO Altar . In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . ( To page 30 .
) THE MINIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARIES KNACKFUSS , Rubens . Fig . 26
. THE GARLAND. Portrait of an unknown man In the Gallery at Cassel.
Fig . 15 . THE ILDEFONSO Altar . In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . ( To page 30 .
) THE MINIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARIES KNACKFUSS , Rubens . Fig . 26
. THE GARLAND. Portrait of an unknown man In the Gallery at Cassel.
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Among the pictures in Germany belonging to Rubens ' Italian 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 .
Among the pictures in Germany belonging to Rubens ' Italian 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 .
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In the Gallery at Cassel . After a photograph from the original by Franz
Hansstängl , Munich . ( To page 39 . ) at Madrid . Commissioned about the same
time by the reigning Prince of the Netherlands , Rubens executed another altar -
piece , in ...
In the Gallery at Cassel . After a photograph from the original by Franz
Hansstängl , Munich . ( To page 39 . ) at Madrid . Commissioned about the same
time by the reigning Prince of the Netherlands , Rubens executed another altar -
piece , in ...
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If we look for dates on Rubens ' pictures we may find a mythological painting of
Jupiter and Callisto in the Gallery at Cassel , dated 1613 ; and another delicious
little night - piece , representing the Flight into Egypt in the same collection ,
dated ...
If we look for dates on Rubens ' pictures we may find a mythological painting of
Jupiter and Callisto in the Gallery at Cassel , dated 1613 ; and another delicious
little night - piece , representing the Flight into Egypt in the same collection ,
dated ...
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In the Gallery at Cassel there is a splendid subject with a half - figure of Meleager
presenting the bristling head of the Calydonian boar to the beautiful huntress ,
whilst Envy lurks in the background . Another representation of the same subject
...
In the Gallery at Cassel there is a splendid subject with a half - figure of Meleager
presenting the bristling head of the Calydonian boar to the beautiful huntress ,
whilst Envy lurks in the background . Another representation of the same subject
...
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