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Rubens

Rubens

9 7.7
A famous painter from Flanders in the 1600s known for dramatic, colorful paintings
  • proper noun
: Rubens
  • Many art lovers admire the works of Rubens for their vivid colors and dynamic compositions.
  • Rubens's painting
  • Paul Rubens
  • Peter Rubens

What Rubens could paint and how he could paint it is over the top.

Examples

  • Despite the fame and scale of Rubens's studio, we possess remarkably little concrete information about its individual members.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Thus, in reference to our Nochlin quote above, Rubens allows his model's body to "count."

    Academic text (1992)

  • You bought a Rubens painting?

    Scoop (2006)

  • What Rubens could paint and how he could paint it is over the top.

    Stanford

  • ROSE: It's by a painter called Rubens.

    Baltimore (2024)

  • In describing the works, Rubens indicated the degree to which he himself was responsible for their execution.

    Academic text (2015)

  • All of this and more will be explored in the documentary Rubens, An Extra Large Story on Magellan TV.

  • More iconic than narrative, Rubens's painting announces his vision of the heroic male body.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Canaletto and Fragonard are the highlights.

  • Raphael and Michelangelo were contemporaries, as were Poussin and Rubens, Ingres and Delacroix, and Matisse and Picasso.

    Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

Peter Paul Rubens
vsRubens
1 6.5

A Flemish painter from the 1600s famous for large, lively Baroque paintings

is the shorter surname form referring to the same artist

Compounds

Picea rubens
  • Specialized
1 9.6

A medium-sized spruce tree from eastern North America that people use for timber and paper

Surface Forms

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Etymology

The name Rubens is a family name that comes from the given name Reuben, an old Biblical name that means 'behold, a son'. Today Rubens usually means the famous Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens, so the name brings to mind his rich, dramatic paintings.