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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The completion of the Church of the Jesuits at Antwerp in the year 1620 brought Rubens very extensive commissions . On the 20th March in that year he signed a contract with Father Jacobus Tirinus. 75 Study of a Head Drawing in red chalk ...
The completion of the Church of the Jesuits at Antwerp in the year 1620 brought Rubens very extensive commissions . On the 20th March in that year he signed a contract with Father Jacobus Tirinus. 75 Study of a Head Drawing in red chalk ...
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39 designs , to be executed by Van Dyck and some of his other pupils , and subsequently to be finally completed by the master himself . Only in a very few instances has it been permitted to an artist to decorate pictorially ...
39 designs , to be executed by Van Dyck and some of his other pupils , and subsequently to be finally completed by the master himself . Only in a very few instances has it been permitted to an artist to decorate pictorially ...
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When , in the summer of 1625 , this series of paintings was completed , the admiration they excited was unbounded . They have long been removed from the Palais de Luxembourg ; and now hang in a gallery of the Louvre specially built for ...
When , in the summer of 1625 , this series of paintings was completed , the admiration they excited was unbounded . They have long been removed from the Palais de Luxembourg ; and now hang in a gallery of the Louvre specially built for ...
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Maria de Medici 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 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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Soon after the completion of this work , he therefore returned to Antwerp . There still exists a letter from him , addressed to Paris . It is without date , so that we do not know whether it refers to his first visit there , or to a ...
Soon after the completion of this work , he therefore returned to Antwerp . There still exists a letter from him , addressed to Paris . It is without date , so that we do not know whether it refers to his first visit there , or to a ...
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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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