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music of the Mass, and deeply impressed by the evolution of the Beuron artwork, which was diverging from modern art, the volumes being increasingly subordinated to the stylistic elements of the
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sect, a religious group which regarded
Catholicism with hostility. In 1877 the family moved to Amsterdam, and the twins were sent to a religious boarding school in
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534:Die Zierde der geistlichen Hochzeit
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1260:1946 deaths
1255:1868 births
1153:Jan Verkade
1133:Paul Ranson
1011:pp. 104-126
877:E. Schuré,
597:(1891) and
442:Kulturkampf
346:Saint-Nolff
241:Paul Ranson
214:Jean Moréas
150:Rijksmuseum
146:Porta Nigra
83:Benedictine
1249:Categories
841:pp. 45 ff.
732:References
413:St Francis
409:Provincial
397:Franciscan
190:Baudelaire
131:Oisterwijk
105:Young life
87:Willibrord
75:anabaptist
1229:Lugné-Poe
1167:Paintings
971:Resources
959:Verkade,
946:Verkade,
933:Verkade,
920:Verkade,
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757:Verkade,
451:Cornelius
447:Gregorian
423:To Beuron
350:Catechism
325:Seraphita
316:Le Pouldu
308:Pont-Aven
276:Jørgensen
264:Theosophy
237:Les Nabis
185:A Rebours
144:, at the
127:Mennonite
71:Les Nabis
59:Symbolist
1224:Intimism
1086:Painters
601:(1946).
477:Writings
455:Kaulbach
381:Florence
312:Huelgoat
272:Kabbalah
268:esoteric
194:Verlaine
180:Huysmans
1210:Related
605:Gallery
459:liturgy
401:Fiesole
393:Pistoia
170:Tolstoy
115:Zaandam
111:Verkade
47:Verkade
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369:Vannes
334:Bach's
320:Balzac
300:Tahiti
255:, and
166:Hattem
1079:Nabis
385:Siena
375:Italy
330:Credo
200:Paris
142:Trier
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