Rubens

[ roo-buhnz; Flemish ry-buhns ]

noun

1. Pe·ter Paul [pee, -ter pawl, pey, -t, uh, r, poul], 1577–1640, Flemish painter.

Rubens

/ ˈruːbɪnz /

noun

1. RubensSir Peter Paul15771640MFlemishARTS AND CRAFTS: painter 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)

Other Words From

• Ruben·esque Ru·ben·si·an [roo-, ben, -zee-, uh, n], adjective

Example Sentences

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.

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A couple of days of Rubens and his church pictures makes one thoroughly and entirely sick of him.

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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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