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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After a conference at Brussels with the Abate della Scaglia , Ambassador of the Duke of Savoy , he wrote Typograve LED Fig . 88. THE RECONCILIATION OF ESAU AND JACOB . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original ...
After a conference at Brussels with the Abate della Scaglia , Ambassador of the Duke of Savoy , he wrote Typograve LED Fig . 88. THE RECONCILIATION OF ESAU AND JACOB . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the original ...
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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 ...
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To him the master wrote from Madrid on December 29 . 1628 : " Pray keep my little Albert where you keep my picture , not in your oratory , nor in the shrine of your household gods , but in your own Temple of Science and Knowledge .
To him the master wrote from Madrid on December 29 . 1628 : " Pray keep my little Albert where you keep my picture , not in your oratory , nor in the shrine of your household gods , but in your own Temple of Science and Knowledge .
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We learn , from a letter which he wrote in May 1655 to a French friend , Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peirese , the learned archeologist , that he even worked over the engravers ' plates , whenever it seemed to him to be necessary .
We learn , from a letter which he wrote in May 1655 to a French friend , Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peirese , the learned archeologist , that he even worked over the engravers ' plates , whenever it seemed to him to be necessary .
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Rubens wrote to the latter in 1637 that the picture was not , as he had supposed at first , intended for London but for Cologne : " Sir , I have received your esteemed letter of last June , which does away with all my doubts .
Rubens wrote to the latter in 1637 that the picture was not , as he had supposed at first , intended for London but for Cologne : " Sir , I have received your esteemed letter of last June , which does away with all my doubts .
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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 University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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