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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Their circumstances soon began to improve , when suddenly , in the autumn of the year 1582 , he received a peremptory order to return to Siegen and go back to prison . Again it was his devoted wife who interceded for him , and again she ...
Their circumstances soon began to improve , when suddenly , in the autumn of the year 1582 , he received a peremptory order to return to Siegen and go back to prison . Again it was his devoted wife who interceded for him , and again she ...
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It was there that her son Peter Paul received his scientific education in the so - called " Pfaffenschule " . He acquired a wide general knowledge and spoke fluently no less than seven languages : Flemish , German , Latin , Spanish ...
It was there that her son Peter Paul received his scientific education in the so - called " Pfaffenschule " . He acquired a wide general knowledge and spoke fluently no less than seven languages : Flemish , German , Latin , Spanish ...
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Whilst there he also received a commission from his own country . Archduke Albrecht of Austria , who had married Isabella , daughter of Philip II . of Spain , had just before the death of that monarch in 1598 been appointed Governor of ...
Whilst there he also received a commission from his own country . Archduke Albrecht of Austria , who had married Isabella , daughter of Philip II . of Spain , had just before the death of that monarch in 1598 been appointed Governor of ...
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In the autumn of 1608 he received alarming accounts of the health of this beloved parent : wherefore he at once took leave of the Duke of Mantua and travelled back by the shortest route to Antwerp . But he arrived too late to find her ...
In the autumn of 1608 he received alarming accounts of the health of this beloved parent : wherefore he at once took leave of the Duke of Mantua and travelled back by the shortest route to Antwerp . But he arrived too late to find her ...
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In the Hermitage at St. Petersburg . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . To page 37. ) Rubens received his first important commission from the town of.
In the Hermitage at St. Petersburg . After a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . To page 37. ) Rubens received his first important commission from the town of.
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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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