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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... so that , while retaining the meaning of the German original in its integrity , the differences in the two languages might be adequately overcome . > LOUISE M. RICHTER . 2012RO 1 PETER PAUL RUBENS . O " n a fine.
... so that , while retaining the meaning of the German original in its integrity , the differences in the two languages might be adequately overcome . > LOUISE M. RICHTER . 2012RO 1 PETER PAUL RUBENS . O " n a fine.
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PETER PAUL RUBENS . O " n a fine old mansion in the Sternengasse at Cologne , a marble slab informs the stranger that here Peter Paul Rubens was born . But neither Cologne nor her rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour ...
PETER PAUL RUBENS . O " n a fine old mansion in the Sternengasse at Cologne , a marble slab informs the stranger that here Peter Paul Rubens was born . But neither Cologne nor her rival , Antwerp , can support their claim to the honour ...
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I cannot believe that we shall be so completely and so miserably separated . ... O God ! may that never be ! My soul is so much in sympathy with yours and in union with you , that > Fig . 2. THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . Drawing.
I cannot believe that we shall be so completely and so miserably separated . ... O God ! may that never be ! My soul is so much in sympathy with yours and in union with you , that > Fig . 2. THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . Drawing.
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THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 15. ) I suffer with the same pain that you are suffering .
THE APOSTLES PETER AND Paul . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 15. ) I suffer with the same pain that you are suffering .
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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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