Rubens
Pe·ter Paul [pee-ter pawl; Flemish pey-tuhrpoul], /ˈpi tər pɔl; Flemish ˈpeɪ tər paʊl/, 1577–1640, Flemish painter.
Other words from Rubens
- Ru·ben·esque, Ru·ben·si·an [roo-ben-zee-uhn], /ruˈbɛn zi ən/, adjective
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How to use Rubens in a sentence
But Rubens was merely trying to appeal to wealthy art patrons, who liked their models with thick legs and dimpled derrieres.
So too did Republican Jim Rubens, a former state senator now in the Republican primary for the United States Senate.
D.C. Needs a Grassroots Fix That Will Come When Left and Right Find Common Ground | Lawrence Lessig | February 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIts owner seems to take as much pride in her bones as the big girls of Rubens could take in their avoirdupois.
Rubens, Giorgione, Klee and Corot have painted it; Jean Cocteau has turned it into film.
Ann Wroe’s ‘Orpheus’: Why the Mythological Muse Haunts Us | Ann Wroe | May 31, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTImagine if Vermeer had painted portraits of Rubens, Bernini, Rembrandt, and van Dyke.
Tacita Dean’s ‘Five Americans’ Captures a Quiet Brilliance | Blake Gopnik | May 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
If it is the end of religious painting to express the religious sentiment, a hundred of inferior pictures must rank before Rubens.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches | William Makepeace ThackerayIf he takes a pious subject, it is to show you in what a fine way he, Peter Paul Rubens, can treat it.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches | William Makepeace ThackerayA couple of days of Rubens and his church pictures makes one thoroughly and entirely sick of him.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches | William Makepeace ThackerayAnd a connoisseur of such judgment that to have him pass your Rubens by is to cast doubt upon its authenticity.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | VariousRubens was sent to prison, and thereafter banished to Siegen, where his wife joined him.
Belgium | George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond
British Dictionary definitions for Rubens
/ (ˈruːbɪnz) /
Sir Peter Paul . 1577–1640, Flemish painter, regarded as the greatest exponent of the Baroque: appointed (1609) painter to Archduke Albert of Austria, who gave him many commissions, artistic and diplomatic. He was knighted by Charles I of England in 1629. His prolific output includes the triptych in Antwerp Cathedral, Descent from the Cross (1611–14), The Rape of the Sabines (1635), and his Self-Portrait (?1639)
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