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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In the Albertina at Vienna , After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 18. ) A perfect courtier , he was much esteemed by the Prince of Parma , whose court - painter he ...
In the Albertina at Vienna , After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 18. ) A perfect courtier , he was much esteemed by the Prince of Parma , whose court - painter he ...
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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 .
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 .
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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 by Braun , Clément & Cie . , Dornach ...
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 by Braun , Clément & Cie . , Dornach ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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