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Ways of Confucius and of Christ
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ISBN: 9781326074340 Year: 1948 Publisher: London Burns Oates

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The Eucharist series
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ISBN: 2800501251 9782800501253 Year: 1978 Volume: 2 Publisher: Brussels : Arcade Press,

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ISBN: 0905203089 0905203577 9781909400580 1909400580 9780905203089 Year: 1977 Volume: 19/4 Publisher: London Miller

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Rubens was mesmerised by faces. He studied physiognomy, the pseudo-science that began making headway in the sixteenth century, which postulated that a person's character could be read from their facial features. He made geometrical analyses of the faces of ancient emperors and heroes. He invested a great deal of time in detailed anatomical studies, sometimes based on nature, and equally often on antique busts and coins. At times it seems as though the master wanted to know and understand every nook and cranny of the human face. To this end he studied man himself and the way in which the ancients dealt with nature. His best portrait copies, thus, are not strictly copies but rather studies in which art history, craftsmanship, literature and theory merge into an emulation of art and nature. They are works in which the artist was looking for what ultimately captivated him the most: man in all of his myriad facets, and the perspectives art afforded to better understand man.


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Rubens : the life of Christ before the passion : the youth of Christ
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ISBN: 9781872501710 9781909400283 9781909400306 1872501710 1909400289 1909400300 Year: 2014 Volume: 5/1 Publisher: London Harvey Miller Publishers


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Das Apostelgrab, der sakrale Grundstein der vatikanischen Basilika
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ISBN: 3923319142 Year: 1990 Publisher: Trier : Rheinisches Landesmuseum,

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