Rubens

[ roo-buhnz; Flemish ry-buhns ]

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

Rubens

/ ˈruːbɪnz /

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)

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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.

Its 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.

Imagine if Vermeer had painted portraits of Rubens, Bernini, Rembrandt, and van Dyke.

If it is the end of religious painting to express the religious sentiment, a hundred of inferior pictures must rank before Rubens.

If he takes a pious subject, it is to show you in what a fine way he, Peter Paul Rubens, can treat it.

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

And a connoisseur of such judgment that to have him pass your Rubens by is to cast doubt upon its authenticity.

Rubens was sent to prison, and thereafter banished to Siegen, where his wife joined him.

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