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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... an overwhelming and exuberant power , tending to create exaggerated form and bold fore - shortening ; an inclination to fill empty space with sumptuos ; objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect.
... an overwhelming and exuberant power , tending to create exaggerated form and bold fore - shortening ; an inclination to fill empty space with sumptuos ; objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect.
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objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect : and a strong task for soft and shining flesh - tints , the shadows in which graduate almost to the red of the blood . Another early work is the Annunciation with figures ...
objects ; a display of harmonious colouring and pictorial effect : and a strong task for soft and shining flesh - tints , the shadows in which graduate almost to the red of the blood . Another early work is the Annunciation with figures ...
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The remarkable features of this work lie perhaps less in the profusion of rising and falling bodies , than in the general effect of the whole , which , on so grand a scale , has never since been attempted .
The remarkable features of this work lie perhaps less in the profusion of rising and falling bodies , than in the general effect of the whole , which , on so grand a scale , has never since been attempted .
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In the execution of this subject he succeeded in producing a great variety of new and powerful effects . Of all the compositions however dealing with this same subject , the one at Malines is perhaps the most fascinating and executed ...
In the execution of this subject he succeeded in producing a great variety of new and powerful effects . Of all the compositions however dealing with this same subject , the one at Malines is perhaps the most fascinating and executed ...
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that year he signed a contract with Father Jacobus Tirinus , the head of the Jesuit College at Antwerp , to the effect that he would undertake the entire pictorial decoration of the church . He had already been entrusted with altar ...
that year he signed a contract with Father Jacobus Tirinus , the head of the Jesuit College at Antwerp , to the effect that he would undertake the entire pictorial decoration of the church . He had already been entrusted with altar ...
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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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