RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages This 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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... Cologne , a marble slab informs the stranger that here Peter Paul Rubens was born . But neither Cologne nor her rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour of having given birth to the Flemish artist - prince . Incontestible ...
... Cologne , a marble slab informs the stranger that here Peter Paul Rubens was born . But neither Cologne nor her rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour of having given birth to the Flemish artist - prince . Incontestible ...
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... Cologne with his family , where he took up his abode in his former residence in the Sternen- gasse . Their circumstances soon began to improve , when suddenly , in the autumn of the year 1582 , he received a peremptory order to return ...
... Cologne with his family , where he took up his abode in his former residence in the Sternen- gasse . Their circumstances soon began to improve , when suddenly , in the autumn of the year 1582 , he received a peremptory order to return ...
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... Cologne again , but died on the 1st of March 1587 , and was buried there in the church of St. Peter . When we think ... Cologne . It is therefore not to be wondered at , that for centuries Cologne was supposed to have been his birthplace ...
... Cologne again , but died on the 1st of March 1587 , and was buried there in the church of St. Peter . When we think ... Cologne . It is therefore not to be wondered at , that for centuries Cologne was supposed to have been his birthplace ...
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... Cologne in which Rubens , who immortalized her , had passed his first childhood . In conjunction with these two scenes from the life of Henry IV . we must mention another work , likewise unfinished , now in the Berlin Museum which ...
... Cologne in which Rubens , who immortalized her , had passed his first childhood . In conjunction with these two scenes from the life of Henry IV . we must mention another work , likewise unfinished , now in the Berlin Museum which ...
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... Cologne a picture representing St. Francis receiving the Stigmata , now in the Wallraf- Richartz Museum at Cologne ( Fig . 116 ) . He repeated here with some slight variations another altar - piece painted in 1632 for the Church of the ...
... Cologne a picture representing St. Francis receiving the Stigmata , now in the Wallraf- Richartz Museum at Cologne ( Fig . 116 ) . He repeated here with some slight variations another altar - piece painted in 1632 for the Church of the ...
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