Sample Sentences forPeter Paul Rubens (auto-selected)
-
•
Although he also painted on canvas, Rubens was one of the last major artists to paint on wooden panels.Rubens = prolific Flemish baroque painter considered by many people, one of the greatest painters in European art history (1577-1640)
-
•
Swarthy boys and dark-eyed Madonnas, staring at you from one corner of the studio, suggested Murillo; oily brown shadows of faces with a lurid streak in the wrong place, meant Rembrandt; buxom ladies and dropiscal infants, Rubens; and Turner appeared in tempests of blue thunder, orange lightning, brown rain, and purple clouds, with a tomato-colored splash in the middle, which might be the sun or a bouy, a sailor's shirt or a king's robe, as the spectator pleased.† (source)
-
•
Rubens and Titian and Playtex and Motorola.† (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
Rubens painted women, Renoir painted women, Picasso painted women.† (source)
-
•
Her arm, thinner than those that Rubens had portrayed but just as voluptuous and thirty times as strong, looked as if it could smash stone columns, and she gesticulated fiercely.† (source)
-
•
Nothing seemed suitable, they were all so elaborate and pretentious, those gorgeous costumes of velvet and silk in the reproductions given of Rubens, Rembrandt and others.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more
-
•
The garden was crossed by a path of red gravel, edged by a border of thick box, of many years' growth, and of a tone and color that would have delighted the heart of Delacroix, our modern Rubens.† (source)
-
•
"Rubens," said Catherine.† (source)
-
•
The only landscape is a Cecil Lawson on the scale of a Rubens.† (source)
-
•
Also pictures by Murillo, Rubens, Teniers, Titian, Vandyck, and others.† (source)
-
•
Doesn't she look like Rubens' second wife?' cried Athelny.† (source)
-
•
The various schools of the old masters were represented by a Raphael Madonna, a Virgin by Leonardo da Vinci, a nymph by Correggio, a woman by Titian, an adoration of the Magi by Veronese, an assumption of the Virgin by Murillo, a Holbein portrait, a monk by Velazquez, a martyr by Ribera, a village fair by Rubens, two Flemish landscapes by Teniers, three little genre paintings by Gerard Dow, Metsu, and Paul Potter, two canvases by Gericault and Prud'hon, plus seascapes by Backhuysen and Vernet.† (source)
-
•
He saw a well-painted (no, not even that—he distinctly saw now a mass of defects) repetition of those endless Christs of Titian, Raphael, Rubens, and the same soldiers and Pilate.† (source)
-
•
I seem to remember that, with that dress, she wore an immensely broad Leghorn hat—like the Chapeau de Paille of Rubens, only very white.† (source)
-
•
Clearly, Trumbull was no Rubens, and concern for accuracy had not been a major consideration.† (source)
-
•
You know, the one who gave all those strange names to his poor children: Rubens, Raphaelle, Rembrandt, and I don't know what other nonsense.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)