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John Rupert Martin Papers

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Martin, John Rupert

John R. Martin was a professor of Art History at Princeton University for 40 years, joining the faculty as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1947. He was eventually made the Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology in 1970, and chairman of the department from 1973-1979. Specializing in Flemish and Baroque painting, Martin was well-known among the student body as a powerful and engaging lecturer, a reputation that followed him outside of the classroom as he periodically gave lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other institutions. Martin's scholarly work was held in high esteem, and he won the College Art Association book award in 1974 for his contribution to the Rubens catalogue raisonne, going on to serve as president of the organization from 1984-1986. He was also editor of Art Bulletin from 1971-1974. John R. Martin died in 2000.

Consists of Martin's correspondence and his handwritten lecture notes from courses taught as well as his lecture appointments at other institutions. Much of the correspondence is with fellow art historians and deals with scholarly matters, including one letter from Irwin Panofsky.

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This collection was processed by Christie Peterson with assistance from Eleanor Wright '14 in 2011.

Publisher
University Archives
Finding Aid Date
2007
Access Restrictions

Materials that do not pertain to student academic performance or discipline, trustee issues, or faculty personnel matters are open. Some files in Series 1: 2002 Accession, 1950-1999 contain student records that are restricted for 75 years from date of creation or for the lifetime of the student.

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Collection Inventory

Arrangement

The materials in Series 1: 2002 Accession of John R. Martin Papers, 1950-1999 remain in the original order in which they were received in the archives.

Scope and Contents

Series 1: 2002 Accession of John R. Martin Papers consists of the lecture notes and correspondence of Professor John R. Martin.

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4 boxes

Antwerp Altarpieces Correspondence, 1967-1969. 1 box.
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Rubens Jesuit Ceiling Correspondence, 1963-1968. 1 box.
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CIHA - Copenhagen, 1975. 1 box.
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APS - Committee on Research, 1986-1993. 1 box.
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Antwerp Altarpieces - Reviews, Correspondence, Etc, 1956. 1 box.
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American Philosophical Society, 1989-1992. 1 box.
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Rubens and the Italian Baroque, 1989-1992. 1 box.
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Baldinucci, Life of Lodovico Cardi-Cigoli, 1985-1992. 1 box.
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Notes on Rubens and Mayerne, 1989. 1 box.
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Correspondence Regarding Van Dyck, 1990-1992. 1 box.
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Miscellaneous, 1992-1993. 1 box.
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Faculty Information Folder - John R. Martin, 1989-1990. 1 box.
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Aston Magna I Lecture Notes, 1978-1983. 1 box.
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Lectures 1987-88-89, 1986-1988. 1 box.
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Views of the Church - Jesuit Church - Antwerp, 1961. 1 box.
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Board of the Friends of the Art Museum - Meeting Minutes, 1994 May 10. 1 box.
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Mount Holyoke, 1987-1999. 1 box.
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Source, RACAR, 1984-1993. 1 box.
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Source, 1991-1992. 1 box.
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H. Terbrugghen, undated. 1 box.
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Rubens Symposium Sarasota, 1981-1983. 1 box.
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Baroque Symposium Raleigh N.C., 1984. 1 box.
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W.S. Heckscher - Lee, 1984-1989. 1 box.
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Miscellaneous, 1990. 1 box.
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Frans Hals, 1989. 1 box.
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Art 550 - Lectures and Reports 1982, 1986-1987. 1 box.
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Frick Symposium, 1989-1990. 1 box.
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APS - Curator - Telephone and Staff List, 1990-1992. 1 box.
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Joshua C. Taylor - Birute Vileisis, 1981-1984. 1 box.
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Princeton University Library - Mr. John Climax, 1967. 1 box.
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Notes on Rubens, Etc, 1986-1991. 1 box.
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Van Dyck 1983, 1976-1983. 1 box.
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Van Dyck And Titian, 1985-1990. 1 box.
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"The Artist" (Renaissance television series), 1990-1992. 1 box.
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Rembrandt Atlanta - Young Women of the Arts, 1987-1988. 1 box.
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Philadelphia Museum Lectures 1969, 1963-1969. 1 box.
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Emile Male, 1984-1987. 1 box.
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Lecture Notes, 1981-1985. 1 box.
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Coat of Arms of the Old Guard of Princeton, 1991 April 10. 1 box.
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1991-1994, 1991-1994. 1 box.
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Curator's Report, 1990-1992. 1 box.
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Present Day Club, 1982-1991. 1 box.
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1964-1977, 1964-1977. 1 box.
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543 Reubens, 1985-1990. 1 box.
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Wadsworth Atheneum, 1988-1991. 1 box.
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Art 552, 1981 Spring. 1 box.
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Lecture: The Other Rubens, undated. 1 box.
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Rubens At Home - 5. Portraits of the Artist's Family, 1979. 1 box.
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True and False in the Old Masters, 1987. 1 box.
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Present Day Club - Vermeer, 1991. 1 box.
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Searching for the True Rembrandt, 1987. 1 box.
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Photos - The Antwerp Altars, undated. 1 box.
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Rubens and the Italian Baroque, 1991-1992. 1 box.
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La Revue du Louvre et des Musees de France, 1979 October. 1 box.
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Caravaggio, undated. 1 box.
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341 Introduction 1., 441 Introduction 2, 1988. 1 box.
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8. Annibale Carracci, 1988. 1 box.
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341, 9. Farnese Gallery, 1988. 1 box.
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10. Carracci School, 1983-1988. 1 box.
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12. Foreign Paints in Italy in the Seventeenth Century, 1987-1988. 1 box.
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18. High Baroque Classicism, 1988. 1 box.
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19. Naples and Northern Italy, 1982-1988. 1 box.
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22. Eighteenth Century, 1988. 1 box.
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23. Tiepolo, undated. 1 box.
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Notes and Reprints from The Art Bulletin, 1950. 1 box.
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Miscellaneous Notes, 1992-1993. 1 box.
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15.-16 Pietro da Cortona (1), 1988. 1 box.
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Publishing Contract, 1988 April 26. 1 box.
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Rubens And Rembrandt and the Medical Profession, 1982-1993. 1 box.
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Rubens And Rembrandt, 1980. 1 box.
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Art 552, 1976-1983. 1 box.
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Mayerne, 1984-1993. 1 box.
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Rubens And Mayerne, 1989-1992. 1 box.
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T. de Mayerne, 1982-1988. 1 box.
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Rubens, Cigoli and Dr. Mayerne, 1989-1993. 1 box.
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Rubens - L. Nonnius, 1964-1988. 1 box.
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Rubens And the Idea of the Self-Portrait, 1987-1989. 1 box.
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The Hand of the Artist, 1964. 1 box.
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Rubens: Jupiter and Cupid, 1967-1971. 1 box.
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Heavenly Ladder Reviews, 1954-1957. 1 box.
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Harper and Row, Cass Canfield, 1989-1990. 1 box.
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R. Stillwell Memorial Service, 1982-1983. 1 box.
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Rubens: Jesuit Ceiling - Reviews, Correspondence, Etc, 1968-1974. 1 box.
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Van Dyck Exhibition Correspondence, 1976-1979. 1 box.
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Ottawa - Toronto - London (Lectures), 1961-1965. 1 box.
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Antwerp Tour, 1975-1977. 1 box.
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Rubens - Oil Sketch Ferdinand I, 1972-1986. 1 box.
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Art 552 - Rubens and Rembrandt, 1979, 1975-1982. 1 box.
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Baroque Miscellaneous Bills, 1973-1975. 1 box.
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London Lecture, 1963-1965. 1 box.
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Rubens: The Triumphal Entry, 1973. 1 box.
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Aston Magna, 1981-1991. 1 box.
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Historiography - Art 500, 1980. 1 box.
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1. Bernini, 1988. 1 box.
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2. Roman Baroque, 1981. 1 box.
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3. Austria and South Germany, 1981. 1 box.
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4. Tiepolo, 1981. 1 box.
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Art 407, 1984-1985. 1 box.
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Alumni Affairs Correspondence, Etc, 1982. 1 box.
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Rubens: The Triumphal Entry - Chicago, Art Institute, 1988. 1 box.
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Lecture - Antwerp, Stadhuis, 1968 June 13. 1 box.
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Philadelphia Museum Lectures, 1963. 1 box.
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Rembrandt As Religious Artist, 1976. 1 box.
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Wisconsin Seminar Correspondence, 1978-1981. 1 box.
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Philadelphia Museum Rembrandt, 1970. 1 box.
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Russian Paintings - Knoedler's, undated. 1 box.
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Lecture - Art Museums of San Francisco, 1982-1983. 1 box.
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Iowa Lecture: V.D.'s Expulsion, 1977. 1 box.
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Rochester, March 1964, 1963-1964. 1 box.
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Watteau - Aston Magna II, 1979 June. 1 box.
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Alumni Day, 1967. 1 box.
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Aston Magna II, 1979, 1978-1979. 1 box.
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Aston Magna, 1981-1982. 1 box.
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The Hand of the Artist Notes, 1986-1987. 1 box.
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1965-1966, 1981, 1965-1966. 1 box.
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Farnese Gallery, 1988-1993. 1 box.
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Reprints from The Art Bulletin, 1950-1963. 1 box.
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Reprints from The Record of the Art Museum, The Art Quarterly, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Late Classical and Mediaeval Studies in Honor of Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., 1955-1966. 1 box.
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Disegni del Domenichino, Antwerpen, 1959. 1 box.
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Essays on van Dyck (National Gallery of Canada), 1983. 1 box.
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Metropolitan Museum, 1968. 1 box.
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Vesalius Lecture, McMaster, December 1987, 1982-1987. 1 box.
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Chicago, 1975. 1 box.
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Canadian Universities Centennial Programme, 1967-1968. 1 box.
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Lecture: Seventeenth Century Prints, New Jersey State Museum, 1971. 1 box.
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Norton Simon, Seventeenth-Century Paintings, 1973. 1 box.
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Witherspoon Lectures, 1964. 1 box.
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Lecture: Rembrandt, Experimental Etcher, 1969-1970. 1 box.
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Rubens Colloquium, Antwerp, 1976-1978. 1 box.
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Rubens Before 1620, 1971-1977. 1 box.
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Lecture: Antwerp, S. Carolus Borromeuskerk, 1971. 1 box.
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Alumni College June 1976, 1975-1976. 1 box.
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Baroque Correspondence, 1970-1976. 1 box.
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Baroque, 1970-1982. 1 box.
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Toronto Ph.D. in History of Art - Appraisal, 1968. 1 box.
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Age of Bach, Westminster Choir College, 1985, 1983-1985. 1 box.
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Van Dyck as History Painter, 1976-1978. 1 box.
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Dutch Genre, 1983. 1 box.
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Baroque Art: Style and Content, 1978 February 2. 1 box.
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Alumni College Florida, 1975-1977. 1 box.
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Philadelphia Museum, Rococo Art, 1964. 1 box.
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National Heritage Ltd, 1969-1971. 1 box.
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Alumni College - The Seventeenth Century: Europe on the Eve of the Modern Age, 1976 June. 1 box.
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Richard Spear, undated. 1 box.
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The Artist and the Mirror, 1987. 1 box.
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Lecture = Portraits by Rubens, 1977. 1 box.
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407, 1982-1985. 1 box.
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Van Dyck St. Sebastian (Janson Vol.), 1972-1980. 1 box.
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Rubens - Leopards, 1968-1975. 1 box.
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4. Hunts and Wild Animals, 1986-1988. 1 box.
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Miscellaneous, 1976-1984. 1 box.
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Alumni Trip Lecture: Self-Portraits, 1977-1980. 1 box.
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P.P.R. Painter of Princes and Citizens of Antwerp, 1983. 1 box.
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Rubens: Hercules and Antaeus, 1977-1979. 1 box.
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Parents and Children, 1983-1984. 1 box.
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Hercules and Antaeus Lecture, 1983-1984. 1 box.
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Rubens: Miscellaneous, 1971-1987. 1 box.
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Rubens, undated. 1 item.
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Reviews, 1965-1968. 1 box.
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Correspondence, 1954-1978. 1 box.
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Manuscript and reprint, 1991. 1 box.
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Print, Suggest