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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Among the numerous pictures representing the Virgin Mary with the Infant Christ alone , or surrounded by Saints , there is a specially attractive one , which must have been painted in 1619. In its execution we can recognise the ...
Among the numerous pictures representing the Virgin Mary with the Infant Christ alone , or surrounded by Saints , there is a specially attractive one , which must have been painted in 1619. In its execution we can recognise the ...
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Although an attempt at composition in the style of the great Italian masters , it is not without importance , for the lovely Infant Christ , so characteristic of the master , has peculiar charm . There is in the same Museum also another ...
Although an attempt at composition in the style of the great Italian masters , it is not without importance , for the lovely Infant Christ , so characteristic of the master , has peculiar charm . There is in the same Museum also another ...
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She is supported by her mother , to whom she is playfully turning round , whilst her father walks beside them , watching his wife and holding the hand with which she guides the infant . This picture together with the one previously ...
She is supported by her mother , to whom she is playfully turning round , whilst her father walks beside them , watching his wife and holding the hand with which she guides the infant . This picture together with the one previously ...
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In the centre is represented the Cardinal Infant crowned bringing hope to the dejected Belgians . Coloured sketch in the Herr tage at St. Petersburg . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and ...
In the centre is represented the Cardinal Infant crowned bringing hope to the dejected Belgians . Coloured sketch in the Herr tage at St. Petersburg . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and ...
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The King of Spain had chosen his only brother the Infant Ferdinand , Cardinal - Archbishop of Toledo as successor to the Archduchess Infanta Isabella : and on the 17th of April 1635 , amid the acclamations of the populace , the new ...
The King of Spain had chosen his only brother the Infant Ferdinand , Cardinal - Archbishop of Toledo as successor to the Archduchess Infanta Isabella : and on the 17th of April 1635 , amid the acclamations of the populace , the new ...
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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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