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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If there be no other resource , I shall implore them to have pity upon me , although you have forbidden me to do so . We ask not for justice , but only for mercy . If we cannot obtain Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In.
If there be no other resource , I shall implore them to have pity upon me , although you have forbidden me to do so . We ask not for justice , but only for mercy . If we cannot obtain Fig . 3. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In.
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PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstäng ) , Munich . that , what is there to be done ? Oh ! heavenly and merciful father ! thou wilt help us then !
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstäng ) , Munich . that , what is there to be done ? Oh ! heavenly and merciful father ! thou wilt help us then !
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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 a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , con- ceived ...
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 a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , con- ceived ...
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His copies of the portrait of Isabella d'Este , now in the Museum of Art- History at Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at ...
His copies of the portrait of Isabella d'Este , now in the Museum of Art- History at Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at Dresden , both after Titian , clearly show how minutely Rubens had studied that great colourist , and how at ...
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The young artist seems to have been also attracted by antique marbles and especially by old Greek and Fig . 11 . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22. ) ...
The young artist seems to have been also attracted by antique marbles and especially by old Greek and Fig . 11 . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22. ) ...
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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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