RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages |
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Page 64
... loving care . We are told that Rubens himself always spoke of this work with great satisfaction . The picture gives us an impression of joy and festivity due to the beautiful harmony of its colour . The key - note is the King in the ...
... loving care . We are told that Rubens himself always spoke of this work with great satisfaction . The picture gives us an impression of joy and festivity due to the beautiful harmony of its colour . The key - note is the King in the ...
Page 70
... loved to portray Saints of youthful beauty clad in brillant silks ; to have to represent an ascetic monk : but the artist , who could , if he pleased , do anything , well understood how to make the most even of this commission . In ...
... loved to portray Saints of youthful beauty clad in brillant silks ; to have to represent an ascetic monk : but the artist , who could , if he pleased , do anything , well understood how to make the most even of this commission . In ...
Page 71
... Love , in a very carefully executed picture in the Liechtenstein - Gallery . Here her exquisite — figure , in the full bloom of health and vigour. Fig . 57. THE FOUR CONTINENTS . In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . Fig . 58. CHRIST ON ...
... Love , in a very carefully executed picture in the Liechtenstein - Gallery . Here her exquisite — figure , in the full bloom of health and vigour. Fig . 57. THE FOUR CONTINENTS . In the Imperial Gallery at Vienna . Fig . 58. CHRIST ON ...
Page 100
... love of luxury than in a desire to become disciples of St. Bavon : which is scarcely to be wondered at , in a work by Rubens . But we must nor forget that the entire tendency emanating from the Jesuit order was in the direction of ...
... love of luxury than in a desire to become disciples of St. Bavon : which is scarcely to be wondered at , in a work by Rubens . But we must nor forget that the entire tendency emanating from the Jesuit order was in the direction of ...
Page 106
... love her . Nay ! what do I say ? one was forced to love her , for the simple reason that she had not one of the faults of her sex . No bad humour , no womanly weaknesses , nothing but loving kindness and a great sense of the fitness of ...
... love her . Nay ! what do I say ? one was forced to love her , for the simple reason that she had not one of the faults of her sex . No bad humour , no womanly weaknesses , nothing but loving kindness and a great sense of the fitness of ...
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