The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 377
rotius, Lipsius, Rubens,and Philip Rubens, his brother, is a monument of thefriendship by which Rubens was united to his brother,and to two celebrated characters who may be styled hiscountrymen; Lipsius being a native of Flanders, andGrotius a Dutchman. This picture, which Rubens executed with… … MARS SETTING OUT FOR WAR. RUBENS. This allegorical conception is truly poetical, and oneof those which characterize, in a particular manner, theprolific genius of Rubens. We cannot better convey toour readers the idea of this great painter, than by de-tailing the explanation of the subject which he…
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