Big & Beautiful

Big & BeautifulPeter Paul Rubens was a great Flemish painter of the 17th Century. He liked plump women. He liked to paint them and he liked to hang out with them, for they were the standard of beauty in his day. What you might call the Peter Paul Mounds—his models' soft, round curves—were in those days thought by all to be indescribably delicious.Rubens' models were heftier than most of the women you find in our pages, but just as lovely if you widen your perspective a little. In these days of s...