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 104
While Rubens was busy painting the Duke of Buckingham , he was at the same
time negotiating with Gerbier and making proposals with the object of securing
peace for his country . One passage from the report of these negotiations fully ...
While Rubens was busy painting the Duke of Buckingham , he was at the same
time negotiating with Gerbier and making proposals with the object of securing
peace for his country . One passage from the report of these negotiations fully ...
Page 106
Thus Dido in Virgil ' s Æneid mourned alone in her desolate home , attaching
herself to objects , which were left to her as the only remembrance of the past . It
is the everchanging scenes , which thrust themselves before us when travelling ...
Thus Dido in Virgil ' s Æneid mourned alone in her desolate home , attaching
herself to objects , which were left to her as the only remembrance of the past . It
is the everchanging scenes , which thrust themselves before us when travelling ...
Page 108
... form part of the Imperial Museum at Vienna . The dilettante tastes of
Buckingham gave Rubens a pretext for undertaking , without attracting attention ,
a journey to Holland , the object of which was really political . He had very much
at heart.
... form part of the Imperial Museum at Vienna . The dilettante tastes of
Buckingham gave Rubens a pretext for undertaking , without attracting attention ,
a journey to Holland , the object of which was really political . He had very much
at heart.
Page 110
Gerbier came over immediately with Carleton to the Hague : and before May ,
Rubens received a passport enabling him to travel without any hindrance to
Holland , accompanied by a train of servants and baggage , with the alleged
object of ...
Gerbier came over immediately with Carleton to the Hague : and before May ,
Rubens received a passport enabling him to travel without any hindrance to
Holland , accompanied by a train of servants and baggage , with the alleged
object of ...
Page 124
From this time it seems as if the master never wearied of painting his young wife
again and again . In fact her portraits became the chief object of his art . The
Munich Pinakothek also possesses a charming family group , where in the spring
of ...
From this time it seems as if the master never wearied of painting his young wife
again and again . In fact her portraits became the chief object of his art . The
Munich Pinakothek also possesses a charming family group , where in the spring
of ...
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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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