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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... her grave , is however no longer to be found there . It was carried off by the
French to Grenoble . Rubens intended to return at once back to Mantua : 23
Perseus and Andromeda In the Berlin Museum.
... her grave , is however no longer to be found there . It was carried off by the
French to Grenoble . Rubens intended to return at once back to Mantua : 23
Perseus and Andromeda In the Berlin Museum.
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In the Antwerp Museum . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément
& Co . , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 34 . ) as a time of
apprenticeship , it was on returning to his own country that he really discovered
his talent ...
In the Antwerp Museum . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément
& Co . , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 34 . ) as a time of
apprenticeship , it was on returning to his own country that he really discovered
his talent ...
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When some time afterwards he ended his life on the scaffold , it passed into the
possession of King Philip IV . , and is now in the Museum Fig . 21 . PORTRAIT OF
AN UNKNOWN MAN , In the Gallery at Cassel . After a photograph from the ...
When some time afterwards he ended his life on the scaffold , it passed into the
possession of King Philip IV . , and is now in the Museum Fig . 21 . PORTRAIT OF
AN UNKNOWN MAN , In the Gallery at Cassel . After a photograph from the ...
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15 ) . In this work Rubens has succeeded in uniting a marvellous chiaro - oscuro ,
with a brilliancy of colouring , which is almost 7 . 21 SOS 3 CS ASUS 2 Semes
OG. Fig . 23 . Perseus AND Andromeda . In the Berlin Museum . ( To page 42 . ).
15 ) . In this work Rubens has succeeded in uniting a marvellous chiaro - oscuro ,
with a brilliancy of colouring , which is almost 7 . 21 SOS 3 CS ASUS 2 Semes
OG. Fig . 23 . Perseus AND Andromeda . In the Berlin Museum . ( To page 42 . ).
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... Prince Starkenberg , bought them for 14 , 000 florins , whereby this
masterpiece came to Vienna and found a place of honour the following year in
the Belvedere Gallery ; whence it has now been transferred to the Museum of Art
- History .
... Prince Starkenberg , bought them for 14 , 000 florins , whereby this
masterpiece came to Vienna and found a place of honour the following year in
the Belvedere Gallery ; whence it has now been transferred to the Museum of Art
- History .
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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 New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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