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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There is a passage in a letter dated Oct. 13 , 1624 from the English Ambassador
at Brussels , William Trumball , which shows that influential persons seemed to
give great weight to the efforts exercised in that direction by so distinguished and
...
There is a passage in a letter dated Oct. 13 , 1624 from the English Ambassador
at Brussels , William Trumball , which shows that influential persons seemed to
give great weight to the efforts exercised in that direction by so distinguished and
...
Page 103
This English peer and ambitious favourite of the young King , Charles I. , whom
he governed as completely as he had previously done his father James I. , came
to Paris in April 1625 to make the necessary arrangements for the marriage ...
This English peer and ambitious favourite of the young King , Charles I. , whom
he governed as completely as he had previously done his father James I. , came
to Paris in April 1625 to make the necessary arrangements for the marriage ...
Page 110
The Piedmontese Envoy had an interview with him at Delft , but the English
Ambassador refrained from a similar expedition for fear lest it should be talked
about . Nevertheless Gerbier travelled for some time from one Dutch town to
another in ...
The Piedmontese Envoy had an interview with him at Delft , but the English
Ambassador refrained from a similar expedition for fear lest it should be talked
about . Nevertheless Gerbier travelled for some time from one Dutch town to
another in ...
Page 111
But with all this , very little result was really obtained ; for the English Ambassador
seemed dissatisfied with the verbal assurances of the Infanta Isabella , and the
Marquis Spinola objected to them as securities for arriving at final terms .
But with all this , very little result was really obtained ; for the English Ambassador
seemed dissatisfied with the verbal assurances of the Infanta Isabella , and the
Marquis Spinola objected to them as securities for arriving at final terms .
Page 114
In May the artist was visited at Antwerp by the Earl of Carlisle , English
Ambassador to the Hague , who was then on his way to Italy . In the course of
their conversation , the painter assured the ambassador , that Spain was longing
to make ...
In May the artist was visited at Antwerp by the Earl of Carlisle , English
Ambassador to the Hague , who was then on his way to Italy . In the course of
their conversation , the painter assured the ambassador , that Spain was longing
to make ...
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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 | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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