RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages This 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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Page 13
... 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 period . In the same collection is ...
... 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 period . In the same collection is ...
Page 18
... figures : Christ and his Twelve Apostles . 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 ...
... figures : Christ and his Twelve Apostles . 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 ...
Page 22
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 34
... 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 intended position . On one of the wings may be seen the Cen ...
... 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 intended position . On one of the wings may be seen the Cen ...
Page 37
... 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. 37 The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippos by Castor and Pollux ...
... 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. 37 The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippos by Castor and Pollux ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Rubens Volume 9 of Monographs on artists ... IX |
| Author | Hermann Knackfuss |
| Translated by | Luise Marie Schwab Richter |
| Publisher | Velhagen & Klasing, 1904 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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