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Commerce and Connections

Commerce and Connections Peter Paul Rubens and the Dedicated Print Andrew D. Hotde The Twelve Years' Truce was a signiflcant impetus for Peter Paul Rubens (r577-r640) to setde in Anrwerp after his return from Italy in r608. On r4 April r609, the armistice was ratified. Four days earlier, the artist wrote of the current optimism in a letter to his friend, Johan Faber, stating that 'the truce for many years will without doubt be ratified, and during this period it is believed that our country will flourish again' . Soon thereafter, on 23 September r609, Rubens was formally named court painter to Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella, the Regents of the Southern Netherlands. Rubens' well-known arrangement exempted hirn from the customary requirement to live at court in Brussels, provided hirn with an annual salary of 500 florins, and released hirn from certain taxes and from the requirements of the guild in Anrwerp.2 Frans Baudouin convincingly argues that the establishment of the truce had greater importance for Rubens than the rank of court painter, for the artist knew that the postponement of war would lead to economic recovery and, in turn, to a new flowering of the arts.) Indeed, Rubens' role as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright 2004 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0169-6726
eISSN
2214-5966
DOI
10.1163/22145966-90000105
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Abstract

Peter Paul Rubens and the Dedicated Print Andrew D. Hotde The Twelve Years' Truce was a signiflcant impetus for Peter Paul Rubens (r577-r640) to setde in Anrwerp after his return from Italy in r608. On r4 April r609, the armistice was ratified. Four days earlier, the artist wrote of the current optimism in a letter to his friend, Johan Faber, stating that 'the truce for many years will without doubt be ratified, and during this period it is believed that our country will flourish again' . Soon thereafter, on 23 September r609, Rubens was formally named court painter to Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella, the Regents of the Southern Netherlands. Rubens' well-known arrangement exempted hirn from the customary requirement to live at court in Brussels, provided hirn with an annual salary of 500 florins, and released hirn from certain taxes and from the requirements of the guild in Anrwerp.2 Frans Baudouin convincingly argues that the establishment of the truce had greater importance for Rubens than the rank of court painter, for the artist knew that the postponement of war would lead to economic recovery and, in turn, to a new flowering of the arts.) Indeed, Rubens' role as

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Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek OnlineBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2004

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