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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Through decades of years this same attractive figure reappears unchanged ; no matter whether freely created from his imagination , or whether recalling an image transfigured by remembrance , it certainly seems to have been Rubens ...
Through decades of years this same attractive figure reappears unchanged ; no matter whether freely created from his imagination , or whether recalling an image transfigured by remembrance , it certainly seems to have been Rubens ...
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Rubens painted in 1612 a picture of the Resurrection , with figures of Saints and Angels on the side wings , for his friend Balthasar Moretus . This work was intended to be placed over the tomb of Moretus ' father in the Antwerp ...
Rubens painted in 1612 a picture of the Resurrection , with figures of Saints and Angels on the side wings , for his friend Balthasar Moretus . This work was intended to be placed over the tomb of Moretus ' father in the Antwerp ...
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Upon his waving locks Victory places a crown of bay , whilst around the figures of the rescued maiden , Victory , the winged horse and the fearful Gorgon's head hover a number of laughing cupids . In the foreground we may observe 22 Fig ...
Upon his waving locks Victory places a crown of bay , whilst around the figures of the rescued maiden , Victory , the winged horse and the fearful Gorgon's head hover a number of laughing cupids . In the foreground we may observe 22 Fig ...
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The wide perspective , the fine horse , the shining armour of the hero , the graceful figure of the girl , and the ... a daughter : and it was perhaps this happy event that specially led him to sketch so often the figures of children .
The wide perspective , the fine horse , the shining armour of the hero , the graceful figure of the girl , and the ... a daughter : and it was perhaps this happy event that specially led him to sketch so often the figures of children .
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Here exquisite baby - figures crowd around a niche containing a figure of the goddess and adorn it with garlands of fruit ( Fig . 27 ) . It is possible , that this fine sketch was originally intended as a design for a titlepage ...
Here exquisite baby - figures crowd around a niche containing a figure of the goddess and adorn it with garlands of fruit ( Fig . 27 ) . It is possible , that this fine sketch was originally intended as a design for a titlepage ...
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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 New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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