RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages This 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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... received at the font the names of the two great Apostles : Peter and Paul . This infant was destined to immortalize the name of Rubens . Towards the end of the year 1577 , Princess Anna , who had been meanwhile divorced from her husband ...
... received at the font the names of the two great Apostles : Peter and Paul . This infant was destined to immortalize the name of Rubens . Towards the end of the year 1577 , Princess Anna , who had been meanwhile divorced from her husband ...
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... received his scientific education in the so - called " Pfaffenschule " . He acquired a wide general knowledge and spoke fluently no less than seven languages : Flemish , German , Latin , Spanish , French , Italian , and English . We ...
... received his scientific education in the so - called " Pfaffenschule " . He acquired a wide general knowledge and spoke fluently no less than seven languages : Flemish , German , Latin , Spanish , French , Italian , and English . We ...
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... received a commission from his own country . 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 ...
... received a commission from his own country . 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 ...
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... received alarming accounts of the health of this beloved parent : wherefore he at once took leave of the Duke of Mantua and travelled back by the shortest route to Antwerp . But he arrived too late to find her alive : for she had ...
... received alarming accounts of the health of this beloved parent : wherefore he at once took leave of the Duke of Mantua and travelled back by the shortest route to Antwerp . But he arrived too late to find her alive : for she had ...
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... CROSs . In the Hermitage at St. Petersburg . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 37. ) Rubens received his first important commission from the town of. EUS ...
... CROSs . In the Hermitage at St. Petersburg . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 37. ) Rubens received his first important commission from the town of. EUS ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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