sixteen eighteen he wrote to an english collector who had declined his studio works and insisted that only the master s hand would do your excellent c. must not think that the others are mere copies for they are so well re touched by my hand that they are hardly to be distinguished from originals. you can compare rubens studio to a modern day fashion house or architect this. an architect likes or norman foster doesn t draw every individual door handle. nor does a fashion designer like karl lagerfeld so every sleeve himself. from his studio in antwerp rubens exported his works to the world and he maintained good relations with his clients whether they were catholic or protestant. german
it has records of the entire scope of his output from sketches and paintings to realize designs it s a mammoth project. even in ruben s lifetime you could find copies of his work across the entire catholic world for example in central and south america in the old kingdoms of mexico in peru and in many remote churches high up in the andes they re all to pieces modeled after rubens originals to get to fin the markets and match. rubin s assigned a large portion of his commissions to his students but he always added the finishing touches the exact process in his studio remains a mystery it s difficult to assess how much he left to his assistants in sixteen eighteen he wrote to an english collector who had declined his studio works and insisted that only the master s hand would do your excellent c.
it has records of the entire scope of his output from sketches and paintings to realize designs it s a mammoth project. even in ruben s lifetime you could find copies of his work across the entire catholic world for example in central and south america in the old kingdoms of mexico in peru and in many remote churches high up in the andes they re all to pieces modeled after rubens originals to get to fin the markets and ribbons. rubin s assigned a large portion of his commissions to his students but he always added the finishing touches the exact process in his studio remains a mystery it s difficult to assess how much he left to his assistants in sixteen eighteen he wrote to an english collector who had declined his studio works and insisted that only the masters hand would do your excellent c.
cut. two cities at the heart of europe minster and also a book. and at the heart of a desperate struggle for the future of the continent. the thirty years war has been raging since sixteen eighteen. now the belligerent powers begin meeting in the two german cities for an unprecedented political experiment the first peace congress in european history. the negotiations will stretch out for five long years. during which the bloody war continues unabated. the fighting on the battlefields virtually continued on the diplomatic trading floor because it s find it hard to heal the mood in the last weeks of the peace congress was frantic with everyone starting to rush and pile on the pressure and