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make great difficulty in this matter, as indeed I have not done. How could I ever
be so cruel as to add to your great distress and tribulation. On the contrary I feel
as if I could even give my own hearts-blood to help you. Should I be like that most
...
make great difficulty in this matter, as indeed I have not done. How could I ever
be so cruel as to add to your great distress and tribulation. On the contrary I feel
as if I could even give my own hearts-blood to help you. Should I be like that most
...
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Therefore banish these thoughts from your heart. I hope and trust in God, that he
may punish us more leniently, and that he may still give us both joy after all this
grief. For this I beseech him from the bottom of my heart, recommending you to
the ...
Therefore banish these thoughts from your heart. I hope and trust in God, that he
may punish us more leniently, and that he may still give us both joy after all this
grief. For this I beseech him from the bottom of my heart, recommending you to
the ...
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Mythology always seemed to give him new ideas: and he enjoyed representing
wild scenes, such as the Abduction of Orithyia by Boreas, the North-Wind, now in
the Academy of Vienna, or the A'ape of the Daughters of Leucippos by Castor ...
Mythology always seemed to give him new ideas: and he enjoyed representing
wild scenes, such as the Abduction of Orithyia by Boreas, the North-Wind, now in
the Academy of Vienna, or the A'ape of the Daughters of Leucippos by Castor ...
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The picture gives us an impression of joy and festivity due to the beautiful
harmony of its colour. The key-note is the King in the centre, clad in a magnificent
red mantle, which forms a contrast with the blue garment of the Virgin. Light
radiates ...
The picture gives us an impression of joy and festivity due to the beautiful
harmony of its colour. The key-note is the King in the centre, clad in a magnificent
red mantle, which forms a contrast with the blue garment of the Virgin. Light
radiates ...
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Several sketches, imperfect though they be, still give us an idea of the grandeur
of the interior of this Jesuit. Fig. 61. THE Assumption of the VIRGIN. In the
Pinakothek at Munich. After a photograph from the original by Franz Hansstängl,
Munich.
Several sketches, imperfect though they be, still give us an idea of the grandeur
of the interior of this Jesuit. Fig. 61. THE Assumption of the VIRGIN. In the
Pinakothek at Munich. After a photograph from the original by Franz Hansstängl,
Munich.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Rubens 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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