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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DEMOSTHENES , from a series of antique portrait - busts vailing in good society ,
but his designed by Rubens . Engraving by H . Witdoek . ( To page 16 . ) marked
artistic inclinations ente GE OTELLITE LICE TEATER 1 Fig . 6 . TIBERIUS AND ...
DEMOSTHENES , from a series of antique portrait - busts vailing in good society ,
but his designed by Rubens . Engraving by H . Witdoek . ( To page 16 . ) marked
artistic inclinations ente GE OTELLITE LICE TEATER 1 Fig . 6 . TIBERIUS AND ...
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A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at Munich also shows his
method of executing portraits ( Fig . 3 ) at this early period . In the same collection
is a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , conceived apparently with an ...
A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at Munich also shows his
method of executing portraits ( Fig . 3 ) at this early period . In the same collection
is a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , conceived apparently with an ...
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with a salary of 400 ducats per annum : and we know that Rubens painted for him
a number of fine portraits , besides various other pictures . In the year 1601 he
was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters . Whilst there he ...
with a salary of 400 ducats per annum : and we know that Rubens painted for him
a number of fine portraits , besides various other pictures . In the year 1601 he
was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters . Whilst there he ...
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Portrait Of A FRANCISCAN MONK In the Pinakothek at Munich . Stay in Rome
studied After a photopraph from the original by Franz Hanfstäng ) , Munich . ( To
page 18 . ) Intique art as well as t he works of the great lasters of the
Renaissance ...
Portrait Of A FRANCISCAN MONK In the Pinakothek at Munich . Stay in Rome
studied After a photopraph from the original by Franz Hanfstäng ) , Munich . ( To
page 18 . ) Intique art as well as t he works of the great lasters of the
Renaissance ...
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Roman portrait - busts . It was as if the cold marble awoke to life before his soul :
and it was under such impressions that he executed those translations of ancient
portraits which in 1638 were multiplied by Vosterman P . Pontius , H . Witdoek ...
Roman portrait - busts . It was as if the cold marble awoke to life before his soul :
and it was under such impressions that he executed those translations of ancient
portraits which in 1638 were multiplied by Vosterman P . Pontius , H . Witdoek ...
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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 | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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