RubensThis biography of Peter Paul Rubens, written by German art historian Hermann Knackfuss, is considered to be the most authoritative text on the artist since its publication. |
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In 1562 he was appointed an Assessor , an office which he held for five years , during the period of Revolution against the Spanish rule . Under the subsequent Governorship of the tyrannical Duke of Alba , when Counts Egmont and Horn ...
In 1562 he was appointed an Assessor , an office which he held for five years , during the period of Revolution against the Spanish rule . Under the subsequent Governorship of the tyrannical Duke of Alba , when Counts Egmont and Horn ...
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For the Count of Nassau needed a large sum of money to help his brother in the war against the Spanish Supremacy . It was therefore only by sacrificing all but £ 120 of the security that. Fig . 4. DEMOCRITOS , from a series of antique ...
For the Count of Nassau needed a large sum of money to help his brother in the war against the Spanish Supremacy . It was therefore only by sacrificing all but £ 120 of the security that. Fig . 4. DEMOCRITOS , from a series of antique ...
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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 Moretus , a celebrated printer of the time , that Rubens ...
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 Moretus , a celebrated printer of the time , that Rubens ...
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So complete was her collapse under the Spanish dominion that her population had sunk from 85000 to 55 000 and grass grew in the streets in which carriages or horsemen were never seen . Peter Paul Rubens ' first master was the landscape ...
So complete was her collapse under the Spanish dominion that her population had sunk from 85000 to 55 000 and grass grew in the streets in which carriages or horsemen were never seen . Peter Paul Rubens ' first master was the landscape ...
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Archduke Albrecht of Austria , who had married Isabella , daughter of Philip II . of Spain , had just before the death of that monarch in 1598 been appointed Governor of the Spanish Netherlands . The title of Cardinal of the church of ...
Archduke Albrecht of Austria , who had married Isabella , daughter of Philip II . of Spain , had just before the death of that monarch in 1598 been appointed Governor of the Spanish Netherlands . The title of Cardinal of the church of ...
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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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