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At Antwerp the Art of painting was flourishing in spite of the fact that this town had become poor and desolate owing to its siege by the Prince of Parma . Indeed it seemed as if that unhappy city had sought solace for the loss of her ...
At Antwerp the Art of painting was flourishing in spite of the fact that this town had become poor and desolate owing to its siege by the Prince of Parma . Indeed it seemed as if that unhappy city had sought solace for the loss of her ...
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We do not know however much about his early work ; although the Holy Trinity in the Museum at Antwerp is generally regarded as one of his first paintings . It represents the Dead Christ , supported by two angels and holding the symbols ...
We do not know however much about his early work ; although the Holy Trinity in the Museum at Antwerp is generally regarded as one of his first paintings . It represents the Dead Christ , supported by two angels and holding the symbols ...
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This painting , if tradition is to be believed , represents his mother ( Fig . 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 ...
This painting , if tradition is to be believed , represents his mother ( Fig . 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 ...
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with a salary of 400 ducats per annum : and we know that Rubens painted for him a number of fine portraits , besides various other pictures . In the year 1601 he was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters .
with a salary of 400 ducats per annum : and we know that Rubens painted for him a number of fine portraits , besides various other pictures . In the year 1601 he was sent to Rome to copy some of the celebrated old masters .
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antique art as well as t he works of the great lasters 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 t he works of the great lasters 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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| 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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