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 115
His Royal patron also desired him to copy paintings by Titian , and to make sketches for tapestries to decorate the apartments of his own palace . They were Fig . 93. RUBENS ' Sons . From the picture in the Dresden Gallery .
His Royal patron also desired him to copy paintings by Titian , and to make sketches for tapestries to decorate the apartments of his own palace . They were Fig . 93. RUBENS ' Sons . From the picture in the Dresden Gallery .
Page 124
His ability as a statesman and the services he rendered in bringing about the Peace so generally desired found everywhere due recognition . When a successor had to be chosen in place of Don Coloma , Spanish ambassador to the English ...
His ability as a statesman and the services he rendered in bringing about the Peace so generally desired found everywhere due recognition . When a successor had to be chosen in place of Don Coloma , Spanish ambassador to the English ...
Page 134
He also gives it as his opinion that it is very desirable that an able historian should be found for Italian Painting ; " an art which appeals to us even more directly than that of the ancients , and of which we have as yet so ...
He also gives it as his opinion that it is very desirable that an able historian should be found for Italian Painting ; " an art which appeals to us even more directly than that of the ancients , and of which we have as yet so ...
Page 154
With reference to his artistic property he desired that the whole of it should be sold , with the exception of his drawings , and a picture called Pelzchen ( " the little fur " ) , which last was left as a personal gift to his wife .
With reference to his artistic property he desired that the whole of it should be sold , with the exception of his drawings , and a picture called Pelzchen ( " the little fur " ) , which last was left as a personal gift to his wife .
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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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