Rubens

[ roo-buhnz; Flemish ry-buhns ]

/ ˈru bənz; Flemish ˈrü bəns /

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noun

Pe·ter Paul

[pee-ter pawl; Flemish pey-tuhr poul], /ˈpi tər pɔl; Flemish ˈpeɪ tər paʊl/, 1577–1640, Flemish painter.

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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.
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So too did Republican Jim Rubens, a former state senator now in the Republican primary for the United States Senate.
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Its owner seems to take as much pride in her bones as the big girls of Rubens could take in their avoirdupois.
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Rubens, Giorgione, Klee and Corot have painted it; Jean Cocteau has turned it into film.
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Imagine if Vermeer had painted portraits of Rubens, Bernini, Rembrandt, and van Dyke.
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If it is the end of religious painting to express the religious sentiment, a hundred of inferior pictures must rank before Rubens.
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If 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 Thackeray
A couple of days of Rubens and his church pictures makes one thoroughly and entirely sick of him.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches|William Makepeace Thackeray
And a connoisseur of such judgment that to have him pass your Rubens by is to cast doubt upon its authenticity.
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Rubens was sent to prison, and thereafter banished to Siegen, where his wife joined him.
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British Dictionary definitions for Rubens

Rubens

/ (ˈruːbɪnz) /

noun

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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