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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With reference to the pictures ordered by the Prince of Wales , he writes on the 13th of September 1621 to W. Trumbull , the English consul at Brussels , “ I wished that the painting for the Gallery of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales were ...
With reference to the pictures ordered by the Prince of Wales , he writes on the 13th of September 1621 to W. Trumbull , the English consul at Brussels , “ I wished that the painting for the Gallery of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales were ...
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PortraIT OF A YOUNG Lady Of The Court of THE Infanta ISABELLA AT BRUSSELS . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . Aster a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 92. ) ...
PortraIT OF A YOUNG Lady Of The Court of THE Infanta ISABELLA AT BRUSSELS . Drawing in the Albertina at Vienna . Aster a photograph from the original by Braun , Clément & Co. , Dornach , Paris and New - York . ( To page 92. ) ...
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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 1 1 Typograt 2004 Fig . 88. THE RECONCILIATION OF ESAU AND JACOB . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the ...
After a conference at Brussels with the Abate della Scaglia , Ambassador of the Duke of Savoy , he wrote 1 1 Typograt 2004 Fig . 88. THE RECONCILIATION OF ESAU AND JACOB . In the Pinakothek at Munich . After a photograph from the ...
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For this reason Rubens returned to Brussels in order to get the Archduchess ' permission to extend his travels . Even then , however , he avoided the Hague . The Piedmontese Envoy had an interview with him at Delft , but the English ...
For this reason Rubens returned to Brussels in order to get the Archduchess ' permission to extend his travels . Even then , however , he avoided the Hague . The Piedmontese Envoy had an interview with him at Delft , but the English ...
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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 New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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