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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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 .
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 .
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These last are also still in the Madrid Gallery , but the figure of Christ himself has disappeared . Later replicas of these thirteen pictures are to be found at the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome , while a number of drawings for them are ...
These last are also still in the Madrid Gallery , but the figure of Christ himself has disappeared . Later replicas of these thirteen pictures are to be found at the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome , while a number of drawings for them are ...
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The figure of Abundance is of singular beauty , such as is not often met with in the women of his later period ( Fig . 13 ) . He worked also at the Oratory of the Chiesa Nuova , completing the altar - piece , which he had , as we have ...
The figure of Abundance is of singular beauty , such as is not often met with in the women of his later period ( Fig . 13 ) . He worked also at the Oratory of the Chiesa Nuova , completing the altar - piece , which he had , as we have ...
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The whole attention of the spectator is attracted by this figure alone ; for all the other figures are unimportant . Their whole attention appears to be directed to raising the heavy cross , and preventing it from slipping from its ...
The whole attention of the spectator is attracted by this figure alone ; for all the other figures are unimportant . Their whole attention appears to be directed to raising the heavy cross , and preventing it from slipping from its ...
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Great attention is bestowed upon the figure of St. Mary Magdalen , for whom the artist having a predilection , created a special type . This attractive figure , a maiden with a fine complexion and very fair hair.
Great attention is bestowed upon the figure of St. Mary Magdalen , for whom the artist having a predilection , created a special type . This attractive figure , a maiden with a fine complexion and very fair hair.
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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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