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... that this volume on “Rubens” which in spite of its brevity, has gone through
seven editions in Germany, in less than ten years still holds its own, beside more
elaborate and ambitious works, published since on this great Flemish master.
... that this volume on “Rubens” which in spite of its brevity, has gone through
seven editions in Germany, in less than ten years still holds its own, beside more
elaborate and ambitious works, published since on this great Flemish master.
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Peter Paul Rubens' first master was the landscape-painter Tobias Verhaeght,
under whom however he studied but a short time. Then for four years he worked
in the atelier of Adam van Noort, an artist much praised by his contemporaries for
...
Peter Paul Rubens' first master was the landscape-painter Tobias Verhaeght,
under whom however he studied but a short time. Then for four years he worked
in the atelier of Adam van Noort, an artist much praised by his contemporaries for
...
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He first went to Venice where the works of the masters of glowing colour no doubt
specially attracted him. Through the medium of a Mantuan nobleman, whose
acquaintance he made in Venice he was invited to the court of Mantua during
that ...
He first went to Venice where the works of the masters of glowing colour no doubt
specially attracted him. Through the medium of a Mantuan nobleman, whose
acquaintance he made in Venice he was invited to the court of Mantua during
that ...
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In the year 1601 he was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters
. Whilst there he also received a commission from his own country. Archduke
Albrecht of Austria, who had married Isabella, daughter of Philip II. of Spain, had
...
In the year 1601 he was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters
. Whilst there he also received a commission from his own country. Archduke
Albrecht of Austria, who had married Isabella, daughter of Philip II. of Spain, had
...
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antique art as well as the works of the great Masters of the Renaissance, and he
had also an opportunity of continuing these studies, in the rich collections of
Painting and Sculpture belonging to his patron Vincenzo Gonzaga himself.
antique art as well as the works of the great Masters of the Renaissance, and he
had also an opportunity of continuing these studies, in the rich collections of
Painting and Sculpture belonging to his patron Vincenzo Gonzaga himself.
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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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