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 78
Out of these subjects , which to another would perhaps have been quite devoid of
artistic suggestion , Rubens by his powerful imagination , has created great
master - pieces , which , from their general conception and expressive power ,
from ...
Out of these subjects , which to another would perhaps have been quite devoid of
artistic suggestion , Rubens by his powerful imagination , has created great
master - pieces , which , from their general conception and expressive power ,
from ...
Page 130
But Rubens depicted the charms of all - powerful Love in a much more riotous
and unruly manner in another picture , called the Sacrifice to Venus , now in the
Imperial Museum at Vienna . Here we do not find as in the first composition ladies
...
But Rubens depicted the charms of all - powerful Love in a much more riotous
and unruly manner in another picture , called the Sacrifice to Venus , now in the
Imperial Museum at Vienna . Here we do not find as in the first composition ladies
...
Page 144
Still more powerful in its effect is another rainbow landscape in the Louvre . Here
the storm is approaching from a distance . Dazzling rays of sunshine are
breaking through masses of cloud and scatter over a hilly country a vivid play of
light ...
Still more powerful in its effect is another rainbow landscape in the Louvre . Here
the storm is approaching from a distance . Dazzling rays of sunshine are
breaking through masses of cloud and scatter over a hilly country a vivid play of
light ...
Page 152
For the subject attracts me more than all the other works , although I am laden
with work ” , — And in very truth this Cologne altar - piece did become one of the
most powerful creations of the master . Though the subject may not altogether ...
For the subject attracts me more than all the other works , although I am laden
with work ” , — And in very truth this Cologne altar - piece did become one of the
most powerful creations of the master . Though the subject may not altogether ...
Page 158
Rubens ' influence on Flemish art was for centuries a most powerful one . We
may even assert with good reason , that never before had a single artist left so
powerful and lasting an effect on the Art of his own country as was the case with
this ...
Rubens ' influence on Flemish art was for centuries a most powerful one . We
may even assert with good reason , that never before had a single artist left so
powerful and lasting an effect on the Art of his own country as was the case with
this ...
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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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