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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This painting he subsequently brought back to his own country and placed above the grave of his mother . Fig . 16 . THE ELEVATION OF THE Cross . Drawing in black and red chalk on green paper , washed and hightened with white .
This painting he subsequently brought back to his own country and placed above the grave of his mother . Fig . 16 . THE ELEVATION OF THE Cross . Drawing in black and red chalk on green paper , washed and hightened with white .
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On the other wing is a striking group of the Mourning Women , amid whom St. John supports the Holy Mother overwhelmed with grief . Originally there was a lunette above the central - portion of this Ancona , representing God the Father ...
On the other wing is a striking group of the Mourning Women , amid whom St. John supports the Holy Mother overwhelmed with grief . Originally there was a lunette above the central - portion of this Ancona , representing God the Father ...
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Beside the Holy Mother stands the impressive figure of St. John ( Fig . 28 ) . The Museum at Antwerp possesses a larger replica of this picture with a landscape background by the " velvet ” Breughel .
Beside the Holy Mother stands the impressive figure of St. John ( Fig . 28 ) . The Museum at Antwerp possesses a larger replica of this picture with a landscape background by the " velvet ” Breughel .
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The head of a child in the Liechtenstein Collection at Vienna , is , no doubt , a likeness of Rubens ' eldest daughter who , with her clear almond - shaped eyes and amiably expressive mouth , seems the very image of her mother ( Fig .
The head of a child in the Liechtenstein Collection at Vienna , is , no doubt , a likeness of Rubens ' eldest daughter who , with her clear almond - shaped eyes and amiably expressive mouth , seems the very image of her mother ( Fig .
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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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