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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... Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour of having given birth to the Flemish artist - prince . Incontestible facts now prove that this event occurred in the little town of Siegen in Westphalia . The ancestors of Rubens had for ...
... Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour of having given birth to the Flemish artist - prince . Incontestible facts now prove that this event occurred in the little town of Siegen in Westphalia . The ancestors of Rubens had for ...
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... Antwerp , where he made a name for himself ; whilst the other , who first saw the light on the 29th of June 1577 , on account of the date of his birth , received at the font the names of the two great Apostles : Peter and Paul . This ...
... Antwerp , where he made a name for himself ; whilst the other , who first saw the light on the 29th of June 1577 , on account of the date of his birth , received at the font the names of the two great Apostles : Peter and Paul . This ...
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... Antwerp with her childern , which she did Fig . 5. DEMOSTHENES , from a series of antique portrait - busts designed by Rubens . Engraving by H. Witdoek . during the following year . It was there that her son Peter Paul received his ...
... Antwerp with her childern , which she did Fig . 5. DEMOSTHENES , from a series of antique portrait - busts designed by Rubens . Engraving by H. Witdoek . during the following year . It was there that her son Peter Paul received his ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... Antwerp . In the year 1605 the Emperor Rudolf II . commissioned Rubens to copy two pictures by Correggio . In 1606 he was again in Rome , where he began to paint an altar - piece for an Oratory just built , known as the new church ...
... Antwerp . In the year 1605 the Emperor Rudolf II . commissioned Rubens to copy two pictures by Correggio . In 1606 he was again in Rome , where he began to paint an altar - piece for an Oratory just built , known as the new church ...
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