Word: siegen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spoke five languages fluently, knew almost everyone of significance in the worlds of politics, scholarship and art, and was the proper heir to Titian's role as "prince of painters and painter of princes." (By a slightly eerie coincidence, Rubens was conceived in the provincial Westphalian town of Siegen in 1576-the year Titian died in Venice.) He was born poor and in exile from Antwerp; he would die with immense wealth, with kings demanding daily bulletins on his health. By modern standards, of course, Rubens' public was quite small. The number of people who had heard...