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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Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size in the Museum
of Art - History at Vienna . 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 ...
Another early work is the Annunciation with figures over life - size in the Museum
of Art - History at Vienna . 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 ...
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... pictures painted by Rubens on this occasion for this purpose . They remained
in situ until 1811 , when Fig . 9 . Christ , from a series of drawings : Christ and the
twelve Apostles . In the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original
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... pictures painted by Rubens on this occasion for this purpose . They remained
in situ until 1811 , when Fig . 9 . Christ , from a series of drawings : Christ and the
twelve Apostles . In the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original
...
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His copies of the portrait of Isabella d ' Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory 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 the same ...
His copies of the portrait of Isabella d ' Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory 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 the same ...
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Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . Roman portrait - busts . It was as if the cold
marble awoke to life before his soul : and it was under such impressions that he
executed those translations of ancient portraits which in 1638 were multiplied by
...
Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . Roman portrait - busts . It was as if the cold
marble awoke to life before his soul : and it was under such impressions that he
executed those translations of ancient portraits which in 1638 were multiplied by
...
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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 Munich ...
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 Munich ...
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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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