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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O in was n a fine old mansion in the Sternengasse at Cologne , a marble slab But neither Cologne nor her rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour of having given birth to the Flemish artist - prince .
O in was n a fine old mansion in the Sternengasse at Cologne , a marble slab But neither Cologne nor her rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour of having given birth to the Flemish artist - prince .
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Johann Rubens was thus at last allowed to return to Cologne with his family , where he took up his abode in his former residence in the Sternengasse . Their circumstances soon began to improve , when suddenly , in the autumn of the year ...
Johann Rubens was thus at last allowed to return to Cologne with his family , where he took up his abode in his former residence in the Sternengasse . Their circumstances soon began to improve , when suddenly , in the autumn of the year ...
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He never left Cologne again , but died on the 1st of March 1587 , and was buried there in the church of St. Peter . When we think of these sad family - events we cannot read without emotion the eulogistic epitaph which his disconsolate ...
He never left Cologne again , but died on the 1st of March 1587 , and was buried there in the church of St. Peter . When we think of these sad family - events we cannot read without emotion the eulogistic epitaph which his disconsolate ...
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It is a curious coincidence that Maria di Medici , thus banished and a wanderer from place to place for eleven years , finally ended her life in the very same house at Cologne in which Rubens , who immortalized her , had passed his ...
It is a curious coincidence that Maria di Medici , thus banished and a wanderer from place to place for eleven years , finally ended her life in the very same house at Cologne in which Rubens , who immortalized her , had passed his ...
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In 1638 Rubens painted for the high altar of the Capuchin Church at 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 ...
In 1638 Rubens painted for the high altar of the Capuchin Church at 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 ...
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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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