Sentence examples for Rubenesque figure from inspiring English sources

Stieglitz noted: "Irish cook with her more-than Rubenesque figure -- an abdomen as I had been waiting to photograph for ages -- the abdomen in this case was in a bathing suit".

Her Rubenesque figure and jet-black hair indeed made her, as Dondel had predicted, "a living Maillol," memorialized in works like "The Seated Bather," "The Mountain," "Air," "The River," and "Harmony," his last, unfinished sculpture.

One such piece, The Fountain (2007), in which a bikini-clad Dunham laves her Rubenesque figure in a campus water feature, presaged the emphasis on body image in her subsequent work.

Not all societies are enchanted by Rubenesque figures.

A few examples are Draconian measures, Orwellian policies, Rubenesque figures, Kafkaesque circumstances, and Dylanesque lyrics.

To me they looked as foreign as eunuchs and, unlike Renaissance or Rubenesque rolls of flesh, their flab was no consolation for my own.

Look no further than shifting cultural beauty standards through history, which have changed drastically from the "Rubenesque" ideal of the 17th century to the Twiggy figure of the 1960s.

But fat was still a touchy subject; writers posited a woman who is obese only because of a twist of fate: a slim, bubbleheaded blonde dies and comes back to life switched into the physique of a smart, Rubenesque lawyer.

The Flemish Baroque artist had an affinity for painting full-figured women, and his name gave rise to the term Rubenesque.

He went back to the figure, in Ingres-like portraits, chiton-clad maidens and fleshy, somnolent Rubenesque nudes, who seem to know nothing at all about the race of erotic warriors he had introduced years before, or about the startling little worlds-within-the-world collages, so audacious and so delicate, that survive from the Cubist revolution, which was Picasso's very finest hour.

He gloried in flesh, male as well as female, painting naked women of Rubenesque proportions with a relish that worried many onlookers.