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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LADY AND CHILD ( probably Isabella Brant with her son Albrecht ) . In the Picture Gallery at Dresden . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 48. ) ...
LADY AND CHILD ( probably Isabella Brant with her son Albrecht ) . In the Picture Gallery at Dresden . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 48. ) ...
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... representing the Conversion of St. Paul , executed probably about the same time ; i . e . shortly before 1618. Here also a sudden catastrophe , against which no resistance to be possible is depicted with the utmost vigour .
... representing the Conversion of St. Paul , executed probably about the same time ; i . e . shortly before 1618. Here also a sudden catastrophe , against which no resistance to be possible is depicted with the utmost vigour .
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We are told that he painted this work , — also a very large one , - in less than - 16 days ; but that probably only implies the time spent by the master himself over the work ; since the collaboration of pupils , whose working days were ...
We are told that he painted this work , — also a very large one , - in less than - 16 days ; but that probably only implies the time spent by the master himself over the work ; since the collaboration of pupils , whose working days were ...
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drawings with sepia ; as , for instance , the cleverly executed design in the collection of Weimar , representing a warrior , whose name we may probably also seek among the heroes of the Thirty Years War ( Fig . 65 ) .
drawings with sepia ; as , for instance , the cleverly executed design in the collection of Weimar , representing a warrior , whose name we may probably also seek among the heroes of the Thirty Years War ( Fig . 65 ) .
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... a picture which probably also owes its existence to the same circumstance is the painting in the Museum at Madrid representing the mediæval legend of Rudolf of Habsburg , commemorated in Schiller's famous Ballad .
... a picture which probably also owes its existence to the same circumstance is the painting in the Museum at Madrid representing the mediæval legend of Rudolf of Habsburg , commemorated in Schiller's famous Ballad .
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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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