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Page 96
... that of the Spanish Commander - in - chief , Ambrose Spinola , with whom the artist was on terms of personal friendship , although he once stated to a friend that " Spinola had no more comprehension of Art than a common domestic " .
... that of the Spanish Commander - in - chief , Ambrose Spinola , with whom the artist was on terms of personal friendship , although he once stated to a friend that " Spinola had no more comprehension of Art than a common domestic " .
Page 98
This last - named picture offers once more a curious instance of those repetitions , which it pleased the artist to introduce ; - not however as a whole , but in the separate groups.
This last - named picture offers once more a curious instance of those repetitions , which it pleased the artist to introduce ; - not however as a whole , but in the separate groups.
Page 114
He however , once more commenced diplomatic action when the Marquis Spinola went to Madrid in the beginning of 1628 , and in the month of March of that year wrote to Buckingham in connection with a letter from Spinola at Madrid ...
He however , once more commenced diplomatic action when the Marquis Spinola went to Madrid in the beginning of 1628 , and in the month of March of that year wrote to Buckingham in connection with a letter from Spinola at Madrid ...
Page 118
In the beginning of 1629 we find him once more in communication with Carlisle and Scaglia , who had come from Brussels to Madrid to talk matters over with him . The assassination of the Duke of Buckingham on August 23.
In the beginning of 1629 we find him once more in communication with Carlisle and Scaglia , who had come from Brussels to Madrid to talk matters over with him . The assassination of the Duke of Buckingham on August 23.
Page 122
... in honour of the nuptials of Henrietta Maria , when all at once the overcrowded balcony on which they were standing collapsed , and Rubens was only just able to save himself by clinging to that portion of it that still held firm .
... in honour of the nuptials of Henrietta Maria , when all at once the overcrowded balcony on which they were standing collapsed , and Rubens was only just able to save himself by clinging to that portion of it that still held firm .
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| 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 New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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