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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The remarkable features of this work lie perhaps less in the profusion of rising and falling bodies , than in the general effect of the whole , which , on so grand a scale , has never since been attempted .
The remarkable features of this work lie perhaps less in the profusion of rising and falling bodies , than in the general effect of the whole , which , on so grand a scale , has never since been attempted .
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esting subjects to enliven a whole gallery of life - size pictures , and to supply them with the necessary variates of situation . If anywhere , it was in the design and execution of this Medici Gallery that he could give full scope to ...
esting subjects to enliven a whole gallery of life - size pictures , and to supply them with the necessary variates of situation . If anywhere , it was in the design and execution of this Medici Gallery that he could give full scope to ...
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... and where at the Reconciliation she smiles at him through her tears . The whole work is one great thought , executed according to the . spirit of the period , and is a creation which fully illustrates the power of ...
... and where at the Reconciliation she smiles at him through her tears . The whole work is one great thought , executed according to the . spirit of the period , and is a creation which fully illustrates the power of ...
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... at Munich , of the Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau ( Fig . 88 ) . This last - named picture offers once more a curious instance of those repetitions , which it pleased the artist to introduce ; - not - however as a whole , but in ...
... at Munich , of the Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau ( Fig . 88 ) . This last - named picture offers once more a curious instance of those repetitions , which it pleased the artist to introduce ; - not - however as a whole , but in ...
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however as a whole , but in the separate groups . Among the women placed by Jacob at the head of his train to inspire the pity of his brother's approaching host , in the foreground we may notice a graceful woman on her knees beside her ...
however as a whole , but in the separate groups . Among the women placed by Jacob at the head of his train to inspire the pity of his brother's approaching host , in the foreground we may notice a graceful woman on her knees beside her ...
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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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