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He acquired a wide general knowledge and spoke fluently no less than seven languages : Flemish , German , Spanish , French , Italian , and English . We know from Balthasar Moretus , 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 , Spanish , French , Italian , and English . We know from Balthasar Moretus , a celebrated printer of the time , that Rubens was ...
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He produced some rather clever works in imitation of the then prevalent manneristic style of Italian art at that time . In 1598 Peter Paul Rubens was admitted into the guild of St. Luke . We do not know however much about his early work ...
He produced some rather clever works in imitation of the then prevalent manneristic style of Italian art at that time . In 1598 Peter Paul Rubens was admitted into the guild of St. Luke . We do not know however much about his early work ...
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1 ) and we may therefore conclude that it was painted before he went to Italy . A lengthy stay in Italy was regarded at that time as an indispensable factor in the education of a painter . Rubens started on the 9th of May 1600 on his ...
1 ) and we may therefore conclude that it was painted before he went to Italy . A lengthy stay in Italy was regarded at that time as an indispensable factor in the education of a painter . Rubens started on the 9th of May 1600 on his ...
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It is most interesting to examine closely manner in which Rubens set to work when copying Italian Masters . His copies of the portrait of Isabella d'Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory at Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at ...
It is most interesting to examine closely manner in which Rubens set to work when copying Italian Masters . His copies of the portrait of Isabella d'Este , now in the Museum of ArtHistory at Vienna : and of a young Venetian lady at ...
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He was no doubt right in adding that it was the painter's wish also to stay on in Italy . Numbers of his paintings prove how deeply he was impressed by the great Italian master - pieces and how much enjoyment he derived from them .
He was no doubt right in adding that it was the painter's wish also to stay on in Italy . Numbers of his paintings prove how deeply he was impressed by the great Italian master - pieces and how much enjoyment he derived from them .
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| Title | Rubens Volume 9 of Monographs on artists ... IX |
| 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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