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             Rubens himself was in particular influenced by Italian sources, being classically trained by Flemish artists from a young age, only to continue traveling Italy between the years 1600 – 1608 where he understandably became acquainted with classical work of Renaissance masters and that of his contemporaries and assimilated the lessons taught by them. Arriving in Venice in 1600 he fell under the spell of the radiant colour and majestic forms of Titian, whose work had a formative influence
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