RUBENS

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• RUBENS (noun)
  The noun RUBENS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RUBENS used as a noun is very rare.

• RUBENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Peter Paul Rubens; Rubens; Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Instance hypernyms:

old master (a great European painter prior to 19th century)

 Context examples 

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.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)