RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages |
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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 is generally regarded as one of his first paintings . It represents the Dead Christ , supported by two angels and holding the symbols of his Passion , in the arms of God the Father above whom hovers the Holy Spirit . It must be ...
... Antwerp is generally regarded as one of his first paintings . It represents the Dead Christ , supported by two angels and holding the symbols of his Passion , in the arms of God the Father above whom hovers the Holy Spirit . It must be ...
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