RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages |
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... artist - prince . Incontestible facts now prove that this event occurred in the little town of Siegen in Westphalia . The ancestors of Rubens had for centuries been settled in Antwerp as respectable burghers . His grand - father was a ...
... artist - prince . Incontestible facts now prove that this event occurred in the little town of Siegen in Westphalia . The ancestors of Rubens had for centuries been settled in Antwerp as respectable burghers . His grand - father was a ...
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... so much in sympathy with yours and in union with you , that Fig . 2 . THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL . ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek at Munich . ( To page 13. ) DEMOCRITOS , from a series. 6.
... so much in sympathy with yours and in union with you , that Fig . 2 . THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL . ALLEGED PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S MOTHER . In the Pinakothek at Munich . ( To page 13. ) DEMOCRITOS , from a series. 6.
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... his mother wished him to acquire the courtly manners then pre- vailing in good society , but his marked artistic inclinations Fig . 6. TIBERIUS AND AGRIPPINA . In the Liechtenstein. ( To page 16. ) ( To page 16. ) ( To page 18. ) 10.
... his mother wished him to acquire the courtly manners then pre- vailing in good society , but his marked artistic inclinations Fig . 6. TIBERIUS AND AGRIPPINA . In the Liechtenstein. ( To page 16. ) ( To page 16. ) ( To page 18. ) 10.
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... artist much praised by his contemporaries for his dexterity in painting , but of whose talent we can now form no judgement whatever , since no picture now extant can with any certainty be attributed to him . For another four years ...
... artist much praised by his contemporaries for his dexterity in painting , but of whose talent we can now form no judgement whatever , since no picture now extant can with any certainty be attributed to him . For another four years ...
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... artistic career . From the 20th of April 1602 we find him back again in Mantua , having carried out , not only the com- missions of the Arch- duke , but also those of the Duke of Mantua . It stands to reason that Rubens during his stay ...
... artistic career . From the 20th of April 1602 we find him back again in Mantua , having carried out , not only the com- missions of the Arch- duke , but also those of the Duke of Mantua . It stands to reason that Rubens during his stay ...
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