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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1 ) The noble sentiments of the mother are reflected in the superior bearing and noble mind , which later on distinguished the famous son . After the generous woman had vainly tried for two years by personal and epistolary entreaties to ...
1 ) The noble sentiments of the mother are reflected in the superior bearing and noble mind , which later on distinguished the famous son . After the generous woman had vainly tried for two years by personal and epistolary entreaties to ...
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The eldest Philip , - her fifth child , - born in 1574 , later on be- came one of the civic authorities at Antwerp , where he made a name for himself ; whilst the other , who first saw the light on the 29th of June 1577 , on account of ...
The eldest Philip , - her fifth child , - born in 1574 , later on be- came one of the civic authorities at Antwerp , where he made a name for himself ; whilst the other , who first saw the light on the 29th of June 1577 , on account of ...
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Later replicas of these 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 . 9 ) . The excellent portrait of a Franciscan priest , now in the ...
Later replicas of these 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 . 9 ) . The excellent portrait of a Franciscan priest , now in the ...
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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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A still more powerful picture is the Descent from the Cross , which the master painted two years later as a pendant to the Elevation and which is likewise in the transept of the Antwerp Cathedral .
A still more powerful picture is the Descent from the Cross , which the master painted two years later as a pendant to the Elevation and which is likewise in the transept of the Antwerp Cathedral .
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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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