Definition of Peter Paul Rubens

1. Noun. Prolific Flemish baroque painter; knighted by the English king Charles I (1577-1640).

Exact synonyms: Rubens, Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Generic synonyms: Old Master

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peter Paul Rubens

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Peter Goldmark
Peter I
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Peter Lorre
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Peter Medawar
Peter Minnewit
Peter Minuit
Peter O'Toole
Peter Pan
Peter Pan collar
Peter Pan syndrome
Peter Pans
Peter Paul Mauser
Peter Paul Rubens (current term)
Peter Seamus O'Toole
Peter Seeger
Peter Sellers
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Tchaikovsky
Peter principle
Peter the Great
Peterbald
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Peterburg
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Literary usage of Peter Paul Rubens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals of the Artists of Spain by Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1891)
"Of the foreign artists who visited Spain during this reign, the greatest was the prince of Flemish painters, Peter Paul Rubens.1 For twenty years he 1 ..."

2. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"Peter Paul Rubens. This preeminent painter, accomplished scholar, and skillful diplomatist, was born at Antwerp in 1577, on the feast day of St. Peter and ..."

3. History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration in Its Relation to by Ludwig Choulant, Mortimer Frank, Fielding Hudson Garrison, Edward Clark Streeter (1920)
"Peter Paul Rubens A plate from a sketchbook edited by Peter Paul Rubens (b. Cologne 1577, d. Antwerp 1640), after a traced copy of an example preserved in ..."

4. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and by John Smith (1842)
"... LIFE OF Peter Paul Rubens. YY HATEVER tends to enlarge our information as to the character of men who have so far distinguished themselves by their ..."

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