RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages |
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Page 5
... 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 facts now ...
... 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 facts now ...
Page 16
... marbles and especially by old Greek and Fig . 11 After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co ... marble awoke to life before his soul and it was under such impressions that he executed those trans- lations of ...
... marbles and especially by old Greek and Fig . 11 After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co ... marble awoke to life before his soul and it was under such impressions that he executed those trans- lations of ...
Page 38
... marbles . His studio also was arranged with great magnificence . The build- ing situated near the broad street , called Place de Meir , shows now but few traces of its famous occupant . The only well - preserved piece being a garden ...
... marbles . His studio also was arranged with great magnificence . The build- ing situated near the broad street , called Place de Meir , shows now but few traces of its famous occupant . The only well - preserved piece being a garden ...
Page 56
... marbles owned by Carleton . Without having even seen them Rubens desired to acquire them , because , as he himself said , he was " mad on antiques " . Sir Dudley Carleton proposed to exchange his marbles for paintings by the master ...
... marbles owned by Carleton . Without having even seen them Rubens desired to acquire them , because , as he himself said , he was " mad on antiques " . Sir Dudley Carleton proposed to exchange his marbles for paintings by the master ...
Page 58
... marbles , which formed a collection such as no prince nor private individual possessed on this side of the Alps . " But " , he continued , " for people in my position who are always on the move , objects of so much weight are not ...
... marbles , which formed a collection such as no prince nor private individual possessed on this side of the Alps . " But " , he continued , " for people in my position who are always on the move , objects of so much weight are not ...
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adorned Albertina at Vienna Albrecht altar altar-piece Ambassador Antwerp Archduke artist Balthasar Moretus Berlin Museum Brussels Buckingham Cardinal Infant Carleton charm Church Clément Clément & Co Collection Cologne colour commission composition daughter death decoration designed display Dornach Drawing Dresden Gallery Duke English engraving executed expression figures Flemish florins France Franz Hanfstängl Gallery at Vienna GARDEN OF LOVE Gerbier hand Helena Fourment Hermitage at St Holy Imperial Museum Infant Christ Infanta Isabella Isabella Brant King of Spain KNACKFUSS ladies landscape letter Liechtenstein Gallery Louvre Louvre at Paris Mantua marble Maria de Medici master Munich Pinakothek Museum at Antwerp Museum at Vienna negotiations Netherlands original by Braun original by Franz painted painter Palace Paris and New-York peace period Peter Paul Rubens Petersburg Philip photograph picture Pinakothek at Munich Plantin-Moretus Museum portrait Prince pupils Queen representing Saint Scaglia scenes Schelte seems sketch Spanish town Virgin whilst wife wrote