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Page 86
... painter of ambition and his ambition knew no limit - must long have kept watch for the chance of painting the principal altarpiece for the new church . The com- mission had been in the public eye at least since the consecration of the ...
... painter of ambition and his ambition knew no limit - must long have kept watch for the chance of painting the principal altarpiece for the new church . The com- mission had been in the public eye at least since the consecration of the ...
Page 88
... painter's offer . When it was understood by the Fathers that , if they did not employ Rubens , the charity would go elsewhere , they modified two proposals in favour of the painter : first , that once the finished work had been shown to ...
... painter's offer . When it was understood by the Fathers that , if they did not employ Rubens , the charity would go elsewhere , they modified two proposals in favour of the painter : first , that once the finished work had been shown to ...
Page 93
... painter had set out from Antwerp in May 1600 . Meanwhile Rubens must have been out to per- suade the Congregation at the Chiesa Nuova to adopt an entirely novel scheme for their cappella maggiore , a scheme in which , by physical ...
... painter had set out from Antwerp in May 1600 . Meanwhile Rubens must have been out to per- suade the Congregation at the Chiesa Nuova to adopt an entirely novel scheme for their cappella maggiore , a scheme in which , by physical ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page | 6 |
The Nature of his Decision | 9 |
Preparations for Italy | 14 |
Copyright | |
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Agostino Albertina altarpiece Annibale Annibale Carracci antique marble Antwerp Barocci Black chalk bodycolour bodycolour on paper Borghese British Museum brown ink Brussels BURCHARD-D'HULST Burl.M Caravaggio Cardinal Carracci chalk on paper Chapel Chieppio Chiesa Nuova Christ church colour composition copy decoration Domitilla Doria drapery drawing Dresden Duke engraving Entombment Farnese Federico Zuccaro Fermo figures Flemish Florence Fondation Custodia fresco Genoa Giovanni Giulio Romano Gonzaga head Hercules ibid Ink and bodycolour Ink on paper Italian Italy JAFFÉ Kupferstichkabinett landscape Lerma London Louvre LUGT Madonna Madrid Mantua Michelangelo modello Musée Museum Boymans-van Beuningen National Gallery Oils on canvas Oils on panel Oratorians painter painting Palazzo Paris pen and wash Peter Paul Rubens Philip picture Pietro Plate portrait Prado private collection Raphael Red chalk Ricci Roman Rome Rubens's scudi Seilern Serra sheet sketch Tintoretto Titian Venetian Venice Veronese verso Vienna Vincenzo WETHEY white bodycolour