Jacob Jordaens
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| - | '''Jacob Jordaens''' ([[May 19]], [[1593]] - [[October 18]], [[1678]]), was a [[Flemish painter]], born in [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]]. | ||
| - | Like [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]], he studied under [[Adam van Noort]]. A marriage to his master's daughter in [[1616]], the year after his admission to the guild of painters, prevented him from visiting [[Rome]]. He was forced to content himself with studying such examples of the Italian masters as he found at home; but a far more potent influence was exerted upon his style by Rubens, who employed him sometimes to reproduce small sketches in large format. | + | '''Jacob Jordaens''' (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678) was one of three [[Flemish Baroque painting|Flemish Baroque painters]], along with [[Peter Paul Rubens]] and [[Anthony van Dyck]], to bring prestige to the [[Antwerp school]] of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations. In fact, except for a few short trips to locations in the [[Low Countries]], he remained in [[Antwerp]] his entire life. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of [[tapestries]]. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted [[altarpiece]]s, [[mythological]], and [[allegorical]] scenes, and after 1640—the year Rubens died—he was the most important painter in Antwerp for large-scale commissions and the status of his patrons increased in general. However, he is best-known today for his numerous large genre scenes based on proverbs in the manner of his contemporary [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]], depicting ''The King Drinks'' and ''As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young''. Jordaens's main artistic influences, besides Rubens and the Brueghel family, were northern Italian painters such as [[Jacopo Bassano]], [[Paolo Veronese]], and [[Caravaggio]]. |
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[List of Belgian painters]] | ||
| + | *[[Diana und Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit]] | ||
| + | *[[Wife of King Kandaules (Jacob Jordaens)]] | ||
| + | *[[Sensualité et volupté, le corps féminin dans la peinture flamande du XVIe et XVIIe siècle]] | ||
| + | *[[The Satyr and the Peasant (Jordaens)]] | ||
| - | Jordaens is second to Rubens alone in their special department of the Flemish school. In both there is the same warmth of colour, truth to nature, mastery of [[chiaroscuro]] and energy of expression; but Jordaens is wanting in dignity of conception, and is inferior in choice of forms, in the character of his heads, and in correctness of drawing. Not seldom he sins against good taste, and in some of his humorous pieces the coarseness is only atoned for by the animation. Of these last he seems in some cases to have painted several replicas. He employed his pencil also in biblical, mythological, historical and allegorical subjects, and is well-known as a portrait painter. He also etched some plates. | ||
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| - | Jordaens died of the mysterious Antwerp disease ('zweetziekte' or 'polderkoorts' in Dutch) in October of 1678, which -on the same day- also killed his unmarried daughter Elizabeth, who lived with him. Their bodies were buried together under one tombstone in the Protestant cemetery at Putte, a village just north of the Dutch border, where his wife Catharina had been put to rest earlier. The Protestant religion was forbidden in Antwerp, which at the time was still Spanish-occupied territory. | ||
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| - | A monument was erected in Putte in 1877, dedicated to and containing the tombstones of Jordaens and two of his pupils, van Pape and Stalbemt. It stands on the location of the little Protestant church and cemetery, both of which were demolished years earlier. | ||
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| - | (See the elaborate work on the painter, by Max Rooses (1908).) | ||
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Jacob Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678) was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations. In fact, except for a few short trips to locations in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted altarpieces, mythological, and allegorical scenes, and after 1640—the year Rubens died—he was the most important painter in Antwerp for large-scale commissions and the status of his patrons increased in general. However, he is best-known today for his numerous large genre scenes based on proverbs in the manner of his contemporary Jan Brueghel the Elder, depicting The King Drinks and As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young. Jordaens's main artistic influences, besides Rubens and the Brueghel family, were northern Italian painters such as Jacopo Bassano, Paolo Veronese, and Caravaggio.
See also
- List of Belgian painters
- Diana und Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit
- Wife of King Kandaules (Jacob Jordaens)
- Sensualité et volupté, le corps féminin dans la peinture flamande du XVIe et XVIIe siècle
- The Satyr and the Peasant (Jordaens)
