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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Page 86
... is not known : but there is no doubt that it was painted in 1621 , and the choice of that particular Saint seems to refer to the Abbé of St. Ambroise , to whom Rubens was indebted for so great and so welcome a commission .
... is not known : but there is no doubt that it was painted in 1621 , and the choice of that particular Saint seems to refer to the Abbé of St. Ambroise , to whom Rubens was indebted for so great and so welcome a commission .
Page 97
... completion of the Medici Gallery in Paris : must have involved not to mention other commissions of greater or lesser importance undertaken by him ,Rubens seems yet to have found time to paint pictures for his own personal pleasure .
... completion of the Medici Gallery in Paris : must have involved not to mention other commissions of greater or lesser importance undertaken by him ,Rubens seems yet to have found time to paint pictures for his own personal pleasure .
Page 106
Although the time of the much - occupied master was just then so much taken up , that , contrary to his own wishes , he had often to reduce his own work and to make over to his pupils a great part of his commissions , he painted every ...
Although the time of the much - occupied master was just then so much taken up , that , contrary to his own wishes , he had often to reduce his own work and to make over to his pupils a great part of his commissions , he painted every ...
Page 114
The King gave many other commissions to the artist , amongst which was the large and idealized equestrian portrait of Philip II . , — who had died thirty years before , which shill adorns the Prado Museum 114.
The King gave many other commissions to the artist , amongst which was the large and idealized equestrian portrait of Philip II . , — who had died thirty years before , which shill adorns the Prado Museum 114.
Page 118
On the 12th of May he reached Paris and from that visit dates probably the vigorous drawing - so true to life – of the aged Maria de Medici , still in the Louvre ( Fig . 97 ) . This Queen had a fresh commission for him , for , -- as a ...
On the 12th of May he reached Paris and from that visit dates probably the vigorous drawing - so true to life – of the aged Maria de Medici , still in the Louvre ( Fig . 97 ) . This Queen had a fresh commission for him , for , -- as a ...
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| 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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