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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This seems very probable since he was wont to execute pictures of large dimensions in a comparatively short time : and it is moreover confirmed by a letter preserved at the Plantin - Moretus Museum at Antwerp , wherein Balthasar Moretus ...
This seems very probable since he was wont to execute pictures of large dimensions in a comparatively short time : and it is moreover confirmed by a letter preserved at the Plantin - Moretus Museum at Antwerp , wherein Balthasar Moretus ...
Page 78
In the Plantin - Moretus Museum there are drawings by Jacob de Wit , and reproductions from the 36 paintings which adorned the ceilings of the aisles and of the galleries over them : but of the three paintings which were in the ...
In the Plantin - Moretus Museum there are drawings by Jacob de Wit , and reproductions from the 36 paintings which adorned the ceilings of the aisles and of the galleries over them : but of the three paintings which were in the ...
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Moretus ' residence , ' now known as the Plantin - Moretus Museum at Antwerp still possesses fourteen of these portraits , painted at different periods . The artist as he had previously done also designed title - pages for his friend ...
Moretus ' residence , ' now known as the Plantin - Moretus Museum at Antwerp still possesses fourteen of these portraits , painted at different periods . The artist as he had previously done also designed title - pages for his friend ...
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Characteristic utterances on the part of contemporaries have come down to us in the shape of letters of condolence , written to his old friend Balthasar Moretus , and still preserved in the Plantin - Moretus Museum .
Characteristic utterances on the part of contemporaries have come down to us in the shape of letters of condolence , written to his old friend Balthasar Moretus , and still preserved in the Plantin - Moretus Museum .
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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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