RubensVelhagen & Klasing, 1904 - 168 pages |
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Page 91
... completion of this work , he therefore returned to Antwerp . There still exists a letter from him , addressed to Paris . It is without date , so that we do not know whether it refers to his first visit there , or to a second , which he ...
... completion of this work , he therefore returned to Antwerp . There still exists a letter from him , addressed to Paris . It is without date , so that we do not know whether it refers to his first visit there , or to a second , which he ...
Page 97
... completion of the Medici Gallery in Paris : must have involved - not to mention other commissions of greater or lesser importance undertaken by him , - Rubens seems yet to have found time to paint pictures for his own personal pleasure ...
... completion of the Medici Gallery in Paris : must have involved - not to mention other commissions of greater or lesser importance undertaken by him , - Rubens seems yet to have found time to paint pictures for his own personal pleasure ...
Page 100
... completion of the Medici Gallery . It consists of two pictures placed one above the other . In the upper portion we see St. Bavon in full armour , kneeling before a priest at a church door and renouncing the world to become a monk ...
... completion of the Medici Gallery . It consists of two pictures placed one above the other . In the upper portion we see St. Bavon in full armour , kneeling before a priest at a church door and renouncing the world to become a monk ...
Page 109
Hermann Knackfuss. F was really political . He had very much at heart the completion of that " beautiful masterwork " as he described it in a letter to Buckingham , the Reconciliation between Spain and England . After a conference at ...
Hermann Knackfuss. F was really political . He had very much at heart the completion of that " beautiful masterwork " as he described it in a letter to Buckingham , the Reconciliation between Spain and England . After a conference at ...
Page 152
... completion . Nay ! on the contrary , I pray that this may be left entirely to me , so that I may be able to finish it , at my own con- venience . For the subject attracts me more than all the other works , although I am laden with work ...
... completion . Nay ! on the contrary , I pray that this may be left entirely to me , so that I may be able to finish it , at my own con- venience . For the subject attracts me more than all the other works , although I am laden with work ...
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