# Did Peter Paul Rubens time travel, or what? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389 "2013-10-27T20:49:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/1 "2013-10-27T20:49:28Z")
Compare [_Portrait of Clara Serena Rubens_](http://www.liechtensteincollections.at/en/pages/artbase_main.asp?module=browse&action=m_work&lang=en&sid=107054&oid=W-2682004161714673) with [Maria Ruseva.](http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/26/world/bulgaria-nikolaevo-roma/index.html?hpt=hp_t3) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/2 "2013-10-27T20:50:52Z")
Not dissimilar, but I’m not really seeing it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/3 "2013-10-27T20:51:46Z")
They look alike to you? ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/4 "2013-10-27T20:55:12Z")
My God! Two children with child-like features! Call Mulder and Scully! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/5 "2013-10-27T20:58:55Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > My God! Two children with child-like features! Call Mulder and Scully! And after 400 years! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/6 "2013-10-27T21:27:33Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > And after 400 years! Wow, after 400 years, kids still look like kids! Amazing! ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/7 "2013-10-27T22:13:32Z")
I will go waaaaay out on a limb and say, no. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/8 "2013-10-27T22:35:02Z")
Wait… are you saying a time travelling Pee Wee Herman is the father of Maria the gypsy girl? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/9 "2013-10-27T22:54:52Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Wait… are you saying a time travelling Pee Wee Herman is the father of Maria the gypsy girl? 😕 You’re thinking of PAUL Rubens. The OP is about PETER Paul Rubens, the Flemish artist from the 16th-17th century. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/10 "2013-10-28T04:56:06Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > You’re thinking of PAUL Rubens. The OP is about PETER Paul Rubens, the Flemish artist from the 16th-17th century. OK, so did Pee Wee travel time or not? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/11 "2013-10-28T04:59:57Z")
Actually, the phenomenon of time travelling celebrities has been brought up before, by me. Several years ago, I answered the very important question that no one ever asked: Did Sandra Bulloch time travel in order to get a modelling gig for an obscure fantasy novel cover? Link is spoilered because it’s vaguely NSFW, that is, there is a lurid 1970s book cover reprinted. Plus the site it’s on has all sorts of NSFW imagery … there just isn’t any on that particular page: [Of course Sandra Bulloch did that](http://www.bondagerotica.com/articles/sandrabullockbondage.html). The interesting question is why? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/12 "2013-10-28T07:49:44Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Actually, the phenomenon of time travelling celebrities has been brought up before, by me. Several years ago, I answered the very important question that no one ever asked: > > Did Sandra Bulloch time travel in order to get a modelling gig for an obscure fantasy novel cover? > > Link is spoilered because it’s vaguely NSFW, that is, there is a lurid 1970s book cover reprinted. Plus the site it’s on has all sorts of NSFW imagery … there just isn’t any on that particular page: > > [Of course Sandra Bulloch did that](http://www.bondagerotica.com/articles/sandrabullockbondage.html). The interesting question is why? Many of the models you see in TV commercials are between 13 and 16. I had a roommate once who was “discovered” by the Ford agency when she was 12. The next year she was doing print ads for cigarettes. (Does anyone remember the Benson & Hedges ad where the model is holding the cigarette between her fingertips at eye level? That was her.) When she was 16 she was on the cover of Paris Vogue. By the time she was old enough to drink, she had aged out. So Sandra Bullock on the cover of a bodice ripper is no stretch at all. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/13 "2013-10-28T15:14:06Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > You’re thinking of PAUL Rubens. The OP is about PETER Paul Rubens, the Flemish artist from the 16th-17th century. I thought Peter Paul made some kind of chocolate candy. Or maybe that what he claimed he was doing when the cops picked him up for jerking off in a porno theater. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/14 "2013-10-28T16:45:06Z")
That’s funny, I thought Peter Paul was in a musical duo with Mary Travers and sang “Puff the Magic Dragon”. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/15 "2013-10-28T16:46:44Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Wait… are you saying a time travelling Pee Wee Herman is the father of Maria the gypsy girl? 😕 PLEASE tell me this is a whoosh! ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/16 "2013-10-28T16:50:33Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Wait… are you saying a time travelling Pee Wee Herman is the father of Maria the gypsy girl? 😕 > [@panache45](#): > > PLEASE tell me this is a whoosh! I’m guessing it is- in fact, I’d bet a fair amount of money on it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/17 "2013-10-28T16:50:42Z")
I didn’t realize they were the same guy. It explains much. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-peter-paul-rubens-time-travel-or-what/672389/18 "2013-10-28T21:45:31Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > PLEASE tell me this is a whoosh! I know you are but what am I