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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Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . 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 ...
Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . 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 ...
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Later replicas of these thirteen pictures are to be found at the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome , while a number of drawings for them are in the Albertina at Vienna ( Fig . 9 ) . The excellent portrait of a Franciscan priest , now in the ...
Later replicas of these thirteen pictures are to be found at the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome , while a number of drawings for them are in the Albertina at Vienna ( Fig . 9 ) . The excellent portrait of a Franciscan priest , now in the ...
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... his sojourn there can only be regarded Fig . 18 . THE DESCENT FROM THE Cross . THE ELEYATION OF THE Cross . From an engraving by Witdoek . ( To page 34. ) 24 - Studies of Putti Pen and ink drawing in the Albertina at Vienna.
... his sojourn there can only be regarded Fig . 18 . THE DESCENT FROM THE Cross . THE ELEYATION OF THE Cross . From an engraving by Witdoek . ( To page 34. ) 24 - Studies of Putti Pen and ink drawing in the Albertina at Vienna.
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Pen and ink drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 42. ) Fig . 25 . MADONNA WITH THE HOLY INNOCENTS .
Pen and ink drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 42. ) Fig . 25 . MADONNA WITH THE HOLY INNOCENTS .
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... of other works : and it is evident also that some of these were portraits . Fig . 21 is the likeness of an unknown man painted about 1609—1610 . Above all. 39 Study of a Iłórse Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna.
... of other works : and it is evident also that some of these were portraits . Fig . 21 is the likeness of an unknown man painted about 1609—1610 . Above all. 39 Study of a Iłórse 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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