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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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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Carleton , who had just been appointed Ambassador to the United Provinces of the Netherlands . He therefore begs his correspondent to procure him a passport for Holland . Gerbier came over immediately with Carleton to the Hague : and ...
Carleton , who had just been appointed Ambassador to the United Provinces of the Netherlands . He therefore begs his correspondent to procure him a passport for Holland . Gerbier came over immediately with Carleton to the Hague : and ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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