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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For a time he was attached as page to the suite of Marguerite de Ligne , widow of Count Philip of Lalaing , since his mother wished him to acquire the courtly manners then pre- vailing in good society , but his marked artistic ...
For a time he was attached as page to the suite of Marguerite de Ligne , widow of Count Philip of Lalaing , since his mother wished him to acquire the courtly manners then pre- vailing in good society , but his marked artistic ...
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Gonzaga replied , however , that he wished to keep him . He was no doubt . right in adding that it was the painter's wish also to stay on in Italy . Numbers of his paintings prove how deeply he was impressed by the great Italian master ...
Gonzaga replied , however , that he wished to keep him . He was no doubt . right in adding that it was the painter's wish also to stay on in Italy . Numbers of his paintings prove how deeply he was impressed by the great Italian master ...
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With reference to the pictures ordered by the Prince of Wales , he writes on the 13th of September 1621 to W. Trumbull , the English consul at Brussels , " I wished that the painting for the Gallery of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales were ...
With reference to the pictures ordered by the Prince of Wales , he writes on the 13th of September 1621 to W. Trumbull , the English consul at Brussels , " I wished that the painting for the Gallery of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales were ...
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... with the alleged object of treating with Gerbier as to the Duke's acquisition of pictures and other works of Art . For certain reasons , which Rubens does not communicate to us in his letters , the Infanta wished that at first he ...
... with the alleged object of treating with Gerbier as to the Duke's acquisition of pictures and other works of Art . For certain reasons , which Rubens does not communicate to us in his letters , the Infanta wished that at first he ...
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as a complement to the incidents of her own life , she wished Rubens to depict also in another long series of paintings those of Henry IV . But Rubens could not stay long in Paris , nor could he devote much time to his conferences with ...
as a complement to the incidents of her own life , she wished Rubens to depict also in another long series of paintings those of Henry IV . But Rubens could not stay long in Paris , nor could he devote much time to his conferences with ...
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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 University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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