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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Hermann Knackfuss. PORTRAIT OF RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J. Löwy , Vienna . ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek.
Hermann Knackfuss. PORTRAIT OF RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J. Löwy , Vienna . ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek.
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... mother of the Orange princes ) " which I have conveyed to you in another letter , still give me hope . . . . I cannot believe that we shall be so completely and so miserably separated . ... O God ! may that never be ! My soul is so much ...
... mother of the Orange princes ) " which I have conveyed to you in another letter , still give me hope . . . . I cannot believe that we shall be so completely and so miserably separated . ... O God ! may that never be ! My soul is so much ...
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... 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 secure her husband's liberty ...
... 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 secure her husband's liberty ...
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... mother tried to hide from her children those sad circumstances , which had caused her such unhappiness . And it was probably for this reason that Peter Paul Rubens thought himself justified in stating : that he had passed the first 10 ...
... mother tried to hide from her children those sad circumstances , which had caused her such unhappiness . And it was probably for this reason that Peter Paul Rubens thought himself justified in stating : that he had passed the first 10 ...
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... mother ( Fig . 1 ) and we may there- fore conclude that it was painted before he went to Italy . A lengthy stay in Italy was regarded at that time as an indispensable factor in the education of a painter . Rubens started on the 9th of ...
... mother ( Fig . 1 ) and we may there- fore conclude that it was painted before he went to Italy . A lengthy stay in Italy was regarded at that time as an indispensable factor in the education of a painter . Rubens started on the 9th of ...
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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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