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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DEMOSTHENES , from a series of antique portrait - busts vailing in good society , but his designed by Rubens . Engraving by H. Witdoek . ( To page 16. ) marked artistic inclinations.
DEMOSTHENES , from a series of antique portrait - busts vailing in good society , but his designed by Rubens . Engraving by H. Witdoek . ( To page 16. ) marked artistic inclinations.
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A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at Munich also shows his method of executing portraits ( Fig . 3 ) at this early period . In the same collection is a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , conceived ...
A portrait bust of a Young Man in the old Pinakothek at Munich also shows his method of executing portraits ( Fig . 3 ) at this early period . In the same collection is a sketch in oil of an Old Lady in a Black Veil , conceived ...
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with a salary of 400 ducats per annum : and we know that Rubens painted for him a number of fine portraits , besides various other pictures . In the year 1601 he was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters .
with a salary of 400 ducats per annum : and we know that Rubens painted for him a number of fine portraits , besides various other pictures . In the year 1601 he was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters .
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PORTRAIT OF A FRANCISCAN MONK In the Pinakothek at Munich . stay in Rome studied After a photopraph from the original by Franz Hanfstäng ) , Munich . ( To page 18. ) antique art as well as the works of the great Masters of the ...
PORTRAIT OF A FRANCISCAN MONK In the Pinakothek at Munich . stay in Rome studied After a photopraph from the original by Franz Hanfstäng ) , Munich . ( To page 18. ) antique art as well as the works of the great Masters of the ...
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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 multiplied by Vosterman , P. Pontius ...
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 multiplied by Vosterman , P. Pontius ...
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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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