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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... it would seem , the Apotheosis of that Prince : a young hero victorious over Envy and Discord receives from the Goddess of Victory a Crown of Bay . Rubens dealt with the same subject a variety of times , but it is impossible to say ...
... it would seem , the Apotheosis of that Prince : a young hero victorious over Envy and Discord receives from the Goddess of Victory a Crown of Bay . Rubens dealt with the same subject a variety of times , but it is impossible to say ...
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On the 13th of October 1607 , his daughter Isabella , a delicate young beauty , whom her gallant uncle likened to the wife of Menelaus , was married to Peter Paul Rubens in the church of St. Michael . In a charming picture , now at the ...
On the 13th of October 1607 , his daughter Isabella , a delicate young beauty , whom her gallant uncle likened to the wife of Menelaus , was married to Peter Paul Rubens in the church of St. Michael . In a charming picture , now at the ...
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His powerful influence acted , not only on young art - students desirous of learning from him , but also on contemporary workers and even on his former teachers . He often worked on the same canvas with other painters , with whom he was ...
His powerful influence acted , not only on young art - students desirous of learning from him , but also on contemporary workers and even on his former teachers . He often worked on the same canvas with other painters , with whom he was ...
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Achilles disguised as a Woman , an impressive picture with many beautiful young female figures ; a St. Sebastian and a Susanna . Carleton then wrote to Rubens that he had selected six pictures . And further invited the painter to visit ...
Achilles disguised as a Woman , an impressive picture with many beautiful young female figures ; a St. Sebastian and a Susanna . Carleton then wrote to Rubens that he had selected six pictures . And further invited the painter to visit ...
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Several sketches , imperfect though they be , still give us an Fig . 62. ST . IGNATIUS LOYOLA HEALING THE Possessed. 76 Portrait of a young Lady of the Court of the Infanta Isabella at Brussels Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna.
Several sketches , imperfect though they be , still give us an Fig . 62. ST . IGNATIUS LOYOLA HEALING THE Possessed. 76 Portrait of a young Lady of the Court of the Infanta Isabella at Brussels Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna.
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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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