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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Page 5
... marble slab On a fine olde mananger 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 Flemish artist - prince . Incontestible facts ...
... marble slab On a fine olde mananger 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 Flemish artist - prince . Incontestible facts ...
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... marbles and especially by old Greek and Fig . 11 . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22. ) ABRAHAM AND MELCHISEDEK . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . Roman ...
... marbles and especially by old Greek and Fig . 11 . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 22. ) ABRAHAM AND MELCHISEDEK . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . Roman ...
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... marbles . His studio also was arranged with great magnificence . The build- ing situated near the broad street , called Place de Meir , shows now but few traces of its famous occupant . The only well - preserved piece being a garden ...
... marbles . His studio also was arranged with great magnificence . The build- ing situated near the broad street , called Place de Meir , shows now but few traces of its famous occupant . The only well - preserved piece being a garden ...
Page 56
... marbles owned by Carleton . Without having even seen them Rubens desired to acquire them , because , as he himself said , he was " mad on antiques " . Sir Dudley Carleton proposed to exchange his marbles for paintings by the master ...
... marbles owned by Carleton . Without having even seen them Rubens desired to acquire them , because , as he himself said , he was " mad on antiques " . Sir Dudley Carleton proposed to exchange his marbles for paintings by the master ...
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... marbles , which formed a collection such as no prince nor private individual possessed on this side of the Alps . " But " , he continued , " for people in my position who are always on the move , objects of so much weight are not ...
... marbles , which formed a collection such as no prince nor private individual possessed on this side of the Alps . " But " , he continued , " for people in my position who are always on the move , objects of so much weight are not ...
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