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Fully recognizing the importance of a perfect rendering of this work, and in order
also to do justice to the author himself, I have been glad to obtain the assistance
of so distinguished a writer as Mr. Hobart Cust in the revision of the English ...
Fully recognizing the importance of a perfect rendering of this work, and in order
also to do justice to the author himself, I have been glad to obtain the assistance
of so distinguished a writer as Mr. Hobart Cust in the revision of the English ...
Page 10
He acquired a wide general knowledge and spoke fluently no less than seven
languages: Flemish, German, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, and English. We
know from Balthasar Mo- retus, a celebrated printer of the time, that Rubens was
...
He acquired a wide general knowledge and spoke fluently no less than seven
languages: Flemish, German, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, and English. We
know from Balthasar Mo- retus, a celebrated printer of the time, that Rubens was
...
Page 58
(To page 68.) especially to Mr. Rubens." Owing to the construction of his Dutch as
well as of his English residences, Carleton after all could only take Rubens'
smaller pictures, and there therefore remained after the valuation a cash-
difference ...
(To page 68.) especially to Mr. Rubens." Owing to the construction of his Dutch as
well as of his English residences, Carleton after all could only take Rubens'
smaller pictures, and there therefore remained after the valuation a cash-
difference ...
Page 64
The force of Divine Wrath is as powerfully expressed as is the supplicating
earnestness of the Holy Intercessors. Whilst Rubens was in negociation with the
English Ambassador at the Hague for the exchange of the antique marbles he, ...
The force of Divine Wrath is as powerfully expressed as is the supplicating
earnestness of the Holy Intercessors. Whilst Rubens was in negociation with the
English Ambassador at the Hague for the exchange of the antique marbles he, ...
Page 84
and he declared that he enjoyed most those works, which admitted ot execution
in full sized proportions. With reference to the pictures ordered by the Prince of
Wales, he writes on the 13^ of September 1621 to W. Trumbull, the English
consul ...
and he declared that he enjoyed most those works, which admitted ot execution
in full sized proportions. With reference to the pictures ordered by the Prince of
Wales, he writes on the 13^ of September 1621 to W. Trumbull, the English
consul ...
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| Title | Rubens |
| Author | Hermann Knackfuss |
| Translated by | Luise Marie Schwaab Richter |
| Publisher | Velhagen & Klasing, 1904 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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