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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n a fine old mansion in the Sternengasse at Cologne , a marble slab u informs
the stranger that here Peter Paul Rubens was born . But neither Cologne nor her
rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour of having given birth to the ...
n a fine old mansion in the Sternengasse at Cologne , a marble slab u informs
the stranger that here Peter Paul Rubens was born . But neither Cologne nor her
rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour of having given birth to the ...
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Johann Rubens was thus at last allowed to return to Cologne with his family ,
where he took up his abode in his former residence in the Sternengasse . Their
circumstances soon began to improve , when suddenly , in the autumn of the
year ...
Johann Rubens was thus at last allowed to return to Cologne with his family ,
where he took up his abode in his former residence in the Sternengasse . Their
circumstances soon began to improve , when suddenly , in the autumn of the
year ...
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He never left Cologne again , but died on the ist of March 1587 , and was buried
there in the church of St . Peter . When we think of these sad family - events we
cannot read without emotion the eulogistic epitaph which his disconsolate widow
...
He never left Cologne again , but died on the ist of March 1587 , and was buried
there in the church of St . Peter . When we think of these sad family - events we
cannot read without emotion the eulogistic epitaph which his disconsolate widow
...
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After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co . , Dornach , Paris
and New - York . ( To page 114 . ) Fig . 95 . ELIZABETH of France , QUEEN OF.
St Francis receiving the Stigmata In the Wallraf-Richartz Museum at Cologne.
After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co . , Dornach , Paris
and New - York . ( To page 114 . ) Fig . 95 . ELIZABETH of France , QUEEN OF.
St Francis receiving the Stigmata In the Wallraf-Richartz Museum at Cologne.
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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 | H. Grevel & Company, 1904 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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