RubensThis 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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In 1562 he was appointed an Assessor , an office which he held for five years , during the period of Revolution against the Spanish rule . Under the subsequent Governorship of the tyrannical Duke of Alba , when Counts Egmont and Horn ...
In 1562 he was appointed an Assessor , an office which he held for five years , during the period of Revolution against the Spanish rule . Under the subsequent Governorship of the tyrannical Duke of Alba , when Counts Egmont and Horn ...
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For the Count of Nassau needed a large sum of money to help his brother in the war against the Spanish Supre- macy . It was therefore only by sacrificing all but £ 120 of the security that. Fig . 4. DEMOCRITOS , from a series of antique ...
For the Count of Nassau needed a large sum of money to help his brother in the war against the Spanish Supre- macy . It was therefore only by sacrificing all but £ 120 of the security that. Fig . 4. DEMOCRITOS , from a series of antique ...
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He acquired a wide general knowledge and spoke fluently no less than seven languages : Flemish , German , Latin , Spanish , French , Italian , and English . We know from Balthasar Mo- retus , a celebrated printer of the time ...
He acquired a wide general knowledge and spoke fluently no less than seven languages : Flemish , German , Latin , Spanish , French , Italian , and English . We know from Balthasar Mo- retus , a celebrated printer of the time ...
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So complete was her collapse under the Spanish dominion that her popu- lation had sunk from 85 000 to 55 000 and grass grew in the streets in which carriages or horsemen were never seen . Peter Paul Rubens ' first master was the ...
So complete was her collapse under the Spanish dominion that her popu- lation had sunk from 85 000 to 55 000 and grass grew in the streets in which carriages or horsemen were never seen . Peter Paul Rubens ' first master was the ...
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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 Netherlands . The title of Cardinal of the church of ...
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 Netherlands . The title of Cardinal of the church of ...
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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 | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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