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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In the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the ... We do not know
however much about his early work ; although the Holy Trinity in the Museum at
Antwerp is generally regarded as one of his first paintings . It represents the Dead
Christ ...
In the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the ... We do not know
however much about his early work ; although the Holy Trinity in the Museum at
Antwerp is generally regarded as one of his first paintings . It represents the Dead
Christ ...
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Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size in the Museum
of Art - History at Vienna . A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at
Munich also shows his method of executing portraits ( Fig . 3 ) at this early ...
Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size in the Museum
of Art - History at Vienna . A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at
Munich also shows his method of executing portraits ( Fig . 3 ) at this early ...
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His copies of the portrait of Isabella d ' Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory at
Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show
how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at the same ...
His copies of the portrait of Isabella d ' Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory at
Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show
how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at the same ...
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... thirteen pictures are to be found at the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome , while a
number of drawings for them are in the Albertina at Vienna ( Fig . ... This plan he
subsequently carried out 18 The Descent from the Cross In the Antwerp Museum.
... thirteen pictures are to be found at the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome , while a
number of drawings for them are in the Albertina at Vienna ( Fig . ... This plan he
subsequently carried out 18 The Descent from the Cross In the Antwerp Museum.
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We find similar pictures differing but slightly from each other in the collections at
Vienna , Cassel and Munich ( Fig . ... mention must be made of a very fine St .
Sebastian in the Berlin Museum and an Inebriated Hercules in the Gallery at
Cassel ...
We find similar pictures differing but slightly from each other in the collections at
Vienna , Cassel and Munich ( Fig . ... mention must be made of a very fine St .
Sebastian in the Berlin Museum and an Inebriated Hercules in the Gallery at
Cassel ...
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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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