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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Sketch for the picture of the Medici Gallery in the Louvre . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franız Hansstäng ) , Munich . ( To page 90. ) Olympus , whilst a car drawn by lions indicates the town of ...
Sketch for the picture of the Medici Gallery in the Louvre . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original by Franız Hansstäng ) , Munich . ( To page 90. ) Olympus , whilst a car drawn by lions indicates the town of ...
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Maria de Medici was so charmed with these works that , as soon as he had completed them , she commissioned him to execute four more paintings , to adorn the same Gallery . One was a representation of herself as Minerva : two more were ...
Maria de Medici was so charmed with these works that , as soon as he had completed them , she commissioned him to execute four more paintings , to adorn the same Gallery . One was a representation of herself as Minerva : two more were ...
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Portrait of a Marquis ( name illegible ) OF THE Court of MARIA DE MEDICI . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 92. ) ...
Portrait of a Marquis ( name illegible ) OF THE Court of MARIA DE MEDICI . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 92. ) ...
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... which those two vast undertakings : the frescoes for the Jesuit Church at Antwerp and the completion of the Medici Gallery in Paris : must have involved — ' not to mention other commissions of greater or lesser importance undertaken ...
... which those two vast undertakings : the frescoes for the Jesuit Church at Antwerp and the completion of the Medici Gallery in Paris : must have involved — ' not to mention other commissions of greater or lesser importance undertaken ...
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The altar - piece in one of the chapels of the Cathedral of St. Bavon at Ghent also dates either before or soon after the completion of the Medici Gallery . It consists of two pictures placed one above the other .
The altar - piece in one of the chapels of the Cathedral of St. Bavon at Ghent also dates either before or soon after the completion of the Medici Gallery . It consists of two pictures placed one above the other .
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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 New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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