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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Hermann Knackfuss. Portrait of RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial Gallery at
Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J . Löwy , Vienna . Fig . 1 .
ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST '
Hermann Knackfuss. Portrait of RUBENS BY HIMSELF . In the Imperial Gallery at
Vienna . After a photograph from the original by J . Löwy , Vienna . Fig . 1 .
ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST '
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O God ! may that never be ! My soul is so much in sympathy with yours and in
union with you , that Fig . 2 . THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . Fig . 1 .
ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST ' S MOTHER . Fig . 15 . THE ILDEFONSO
Altar .
O God ! may that never be ! My soul is so much in sympathy with yours and in
union with you , that Fig . 2 . THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . Fig . 1 .
ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST ' S MOTHER . Fig . 15 . THE ILDEFONSO
Altar .
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But neither Cologne nor her rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour
of having given birth to the Flemish artist - prince . Incontestible facts now prove
that this event occurred in the little town of Siegen in Westphalia . The ancestors ...
But neither Cologne nor her rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour
of having given birth to the Flemish artist - prince . Incontestible facts now prove
that this event occurred in the little town of Siegen in Westphalia . The ancestors ...
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O God ! may that never be ! My soul is so much in sympathy with yours and in
union with you , that Fig . 2 . THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . Fig . 1 .
ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST ' S MOTHER . Fig . 15 . THE ILDEFONSO
Altar .
O God ! may that never be ! My soul is so much in sympathy with yours and in
union with you , that Fig . 2 . THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . Fig . 1 .
ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST ' S MOTHER . Fig . 15 . THE ILDEFONSO
Altar .
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Then for four years he worked in the atelier of Adam van Noort , an artist much
praised by his contemporaries for his dexterity in painting , but of whose talent we
can now form no judgement whatever , since no picture now extant can with any
...
Then for four years he worked in the atelier of Adam van Noort , an artist much
praised by his contemporaries for his dexterity in painting , but of whose talent we
can now form no judgement whatever , since no picture now extant can with any
...
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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 | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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