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 ...
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 ...
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What she had been to him is best described in his own words , written in a letter dated July 15th of that year . “ Truly , " he says , “ I have lost a most exceptional companion . One could not do otherwise than love her .
What she had been to him is best described in his own words , written in a letter dated July 15th of that year . “ Truly , " he says , “ I have lost a most exceptional companion . One could not do otherwise than love her .
Page 109
He had very much at heart the completion of that " beautiful masterwork " as he described it in a letter to Buckingham , the Reconciliation between Spain and England . After a conference at Brussels with the Abate della Scaglia ...
He had very much at heart the completion of that " beautiful masterwork " as he described it in a letter to Buckingham , the Reconciliation between Spain and England . After a conference at Brussels with the Abate della Scaglia ...
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... which Rubens does not communicate to us in his letters , the Infanta wished that at first he should not go beyond Zevenberghen in the North Brabant ; but Carleton , on the other hand , was afraid that a meeting between Gerbier and ...
... which Rubens does not communicate to us in his letters , the Infanta wished that at first he should not go beyond Zevenberghen in the North Brabant ; but Carleton , on the other hand , was afraid that a meeting between Gerbier and ...
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Precautions were carried so far that , when , later on , Rubens returned to Antwerp , he arranged that letters from Holland on Fig . 90 . THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM . In the Collection of Drawings in the Albertina at Vienna .
Precautions were carried so far that , when , later on , Rubens returned to Antwerp , he arranged that letters from Holland on Fig . 90 . THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM . In the Collection of Drawings in the Albertina at Vienna .
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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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