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... town of Siegen in Westphalia . The ancestors of Rubens had for centuries been settled in Antwerp as respectable burghers . His grand - father was a dispensing chemist , who also owned a grocer's shop ; but his father was educated to a ...
... town of Siegen in Westphalia . The ancestors of Rubens had for centuries been settled in Antwerp as respectable burghers . His grand - father was a dispensing chemist , who also owned a grocer's shop ; but his father was educated to a ...
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... town nearer his own country , so that he might be enabled to make a respectable living for his wife and children . His request was granted on condition ; that he should present himself before the municipality of Nassau whenever required ...
... town nearer his own country , so that he might be enabled to make a respectable living for his wife and children . His request was granted on condition ; that he should present himself before the municipality of Nassau whenever required ...
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... town had become poor and desolate owing to its siege by the Prince of Parma . Indeed it seemed as if that unhappy city had sought solace for the loss of her liberty in the dreamland of art . So complete was her collapse under the ...
... town had become poor and desolate owing to its siege by the Prince of Parma . Indeed it seemed as if that unhappy city had sought solace for the loss of her liberty in the dreamland of art . So complete was her collapse under the ...
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... to the architecture of the town and , in order to improve the taste for building in his own country , conceived the idea , of making a collection of drawings of Genoese palace - architecture . This plan he subsequently carried out 18.
... to the architecture of the town and , in order to improve the taste for building in his own country , conceived the idea , of making a collection of drawings of Genoese palace - architecture . This plan he subsequently carried out 18.
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... Town - Clerk of Antwerp . On the 13th of October 1607 , his daughter Isabella , a delicate young beauty , whom her gallant uncle likened to the wife of Menelaus , was married to Peter Paul Rubens in the church of St. Michael . In a ...
... Town - Clerk of Antwerp . On the 13th of October 1607 , his daughter Isabella , a delicate young beauty , whom her gallant uncle likened to the wife of Menelaus , was married to Peter Paul Rubens in the church of St. Michael . In a ...
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| Title | Rubens Added t.-p.: Monographs on artists ... IX 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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