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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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... according to the description given of it , identified with the fine picture now in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg , sometimes designated as the Tiber , sometimes , - on account of the tiger depicted on one side - also as the Tigris ...
... according to the description given of it , identified with the fine picture now in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg , sometimes designated as the Tiber , sometimes , - on account of the tiger depicted on one side - also as the Tigris ...
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Archduke Albrecht had founded at Brussels in honour of St. Ildefonso an aristocratic Brotherhood , to whom he had given an altar in his own church dedicated to " St. James on the Kaltenberg ” . The painter received a commission to adorn ...
Archduke Albrecht had founded at Brussels in honour of St. Ildefonso an aristocratic Brotherhood , to whom he had given an altar in his own church dedicated to " St. James on the Kaltenberg ” . The painter received a commission to adorn ...
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On the other , the following from the same poet : “ Pray that in your healthy body may live a healthy mind ; And that your heart may neither flinch from death Nor be given over to passion and desire . " Contemporary artists have often ...
On the other , the following from the same poet : “ Pray that in your healthy body may live a healthy mind ; And that your heart may neither flinch from death Nor be given over to passion and desire . " Contemporary artists have often ...
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... relates his Dream to his soldiers : in which he had been shown that the Victory would be given to that army whose leader should perish . In the second painting the Soothsayers devoutly consult the omens in the sacrifice ...
... relates his Dream to his soldiers : in which he had been shown that the Victory would be given to that army whose leader should perish . In the second painting the Soothsayers devoutly consult the omens in the sacrifice ...
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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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