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Rubens (disambiguation)

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) was a Flemish artist.

Rubens may also refer to:

  • Rubens (film), a 1977 Belgian film
  • Rubens (horse), a 19th-century Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Rubens, Iowa, a ghost town
  • 10151 Rubens, a main-belt asteroid
  • Rubens apple, an apple cultivar

In species:

  • Amastra rubens, a species of air-breathing land snail
  • Anitys rubens, a species of beetle
  • Calanthe rubens, a species of orchid
  • Crassocephalum rubens, a species of edible, erect annual herb
  • Inquisitor rubens, a sea snail species
  • Knema rubens, a species of plant in the Myristicaceae family
  • Nidularium rubens, a species of plant in the Bromeliaceae family
  • Omphalotropis rubens, a species of land snail
  • Orthetrum rubens, a species of dragonfly
  • Picea rubens, a species of Red Spruce tree
  • Podocarpus rubens, a species of conifer
  • Polymastia rubens, a species of demosponge
  • Saurauia rubens, a species in the Actinidiaceae (gooseberry) family
Rubens (film)

Rubens is a 1977 Belgian drama film directed by Roland Verhavert. The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 50th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Rubens (horse)

Rubens (1805 – February 1829) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. During his career he won three races, including the Craven Stakes in 1810. After retiring from racing he became a successful stallion and was the leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1815, 1821 and 1822. His progeny included Landscape, Pastille and Whizgig.

Rubens (train)

The Rubens was an express train that linked Gare du Nord in Paris, France, with Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid in Brussels, Belgium. The train was named after Belgian painter Peter Paul Rubens.

Usage examples of "rubens".

It is the chain of royal patronage that Peter Paul Rubens deservedly had and that many lesser painters of the time received from their royal sponsors but Rembrandt never achieved it.

But, if we look more closely, we shall not be slow to perceive that no work is more homogeneous than that of Flaubert, and that, in truth, the Education Sentimentale differs from Salammbô only as a Kermesse of Rubens, for example, or a Bacchante of Poussin differs from the apotheoses or the Church pictures of the painters themselves.

Some day he would have to tell Rubens about the West Indian fast bowler who had got life for murdering his wife, though, thankfully, not with a cricket bat.

Tracy moved from room to room, walking slowly through the salons filled with Rubens paintings and Titians, Tintorettos, Bosches, and paintings by Domenikos Theotokopoulos, who became famous as El Greco.