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Page 6
Moreover the offender found a most eloquent intercessor in a quarter whence he
certainly least deserved to expect it. Maria Pypelincks, his injured wife, did her
utmost to procure his pardon. Two letters of sympathy and consolation have
come ...
Moreover the offender found a most eloquent intercessor in a quarter whence he
certainly least deserved to expect it. Maria Pypelincks, his injured wife, did her
utmost to procure his pardon. Two letters of sympathy and consolation have
come ...
Page 8
The end of the letter runs thus: "Now I recommend you to the Lord, for I can write
no more, and I beg of you, not to anticipate the worst : for that will anyhow come
soon enough. To be always thinking of death and dreading death is worse than ...
The end of the letter runs thus: "Now I recommend you to the Lord, for I can write
no more, and I beg of you, not to anticipate the worst : for that will anyhow come
soon enough. To be always thinking of death and dreading death is worse than ...
Page 56
This seems very probable since he was wont to execute pictures of large
dimensions in a comparatively short time : and it is moreover confirmed by a letter
preserved at the Plan tin -Moretus Museum at Antwerp, wherein Balthasar Mo-
retus ...
This seems very probable since he was wont to execute pictures of large
dimensions in a comparatively short time : and it is moreover confirmed by a letter
preserved at the Plan tin -Moretus Museum at Antwerp, wherein Balthasar Mo-
retus ...
Page 58
Rubens mentions in the letter, in which he consents to this proposition that he
had that year spent several thousand florins on his house and that consequently
would have much preferred to pay entirely with pictures; "since everyone is more
...
Rubens mentions in the letter, in which he consents to this proposition that he
had that year spent several thousand florins on his house and that consequently
would have much preferred to pay entirely with pictures; "since everyone is more
...
Page 91
There still exists a letter from him, addressed to Paris. It is without date, so that we
do not know whether it refers to his first visit there, or to a second, which he
undertook in order to finish the paintings:, or perhaps to a subsequent stay in the
...
There still exists a letter from him, addressed to Paris. It is without date, so that we
do not know whether it refers to his first visit there, or to a second, which he
undertook in order to finish the paintings:, or perhaps to a subsequent stay in the
...
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