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JORDAENS, Jacob
Flemish painter (b. 1593, Antwerpen, d. 1678, Antwerpen).
Flemish painter, tapestry designer and draughtsman. In the context of 17th-century Flemish art, he emerges as a somewhat complicated figure. His oeuvre, the fruit of a continual artistic development, is characterized by great stylistic versatility, to which the length of his career contributed. His religious, mythological and historical representations evolved from the rhetorical prolixity of the Baroque into a vernacular, sometimes almost caricatural, formal idiom. The lack of idealistic treatment in his work is undoubtedly the factor that most removed Jordaens's art from that of his great Flemish contemporaries Rubens and van Dyck. Jordaens's officially commissioned works included many paintings in which the sublimity of the subject-matter clashed with the vulgarity of some of his figures. Unlike Rubens and van Dyck, both of whom were knighted in the course of their careers, Jordaens was, in fact, completely ignored by the courts of Spain and Brussels
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Painting ID:: 7691
The Bean King (detail) sf
c. 1638
Oil on canvas, 160 x 213 cm (full painting)
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Painting ID:: 7692
Eating Man f
Oil on canvas
Staatliche Museen, Kassel
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Painting ID:: 7693
The King Drinks sf
1638
Oil on canvas
Mus??es Royaux des Beaux Arts, Brussels
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Painting ID:: 7694
As the Old Sang the Young Play Pipes dy
1638
Oil on canvas, 192 x 120 cm
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
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Painting ID:: 7695
As the Old Sang the Young Play Pipes (detail) sf
1638
Oil on canvas
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
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JORDAENS, Jacob
Flemish painter (b. 1593, Antwerpen, d. 1678, Antwerpen).
Flemish painter, tapestry designer and draughtsman. In the context of 17th-century Flemish art, he emerges as a somewhat complicated figure. His oeuvre, the fruit of a continual artistic development, is characterized by great stylistic versatility, to which the length of his career contributed. His religious, mythological and historical representations evolved from the rhetorical prolixity of the Baroque into a vernacular, sometimes almost caricatural, formal idiom. The lack of idealistic treatment in his work is undoubtedly the factor that most removed Jordaens's art from that of his great Flemish contemporaries Rubens and van Dyck. Jordaens's officially commissioned works included many paintings in which the sublimity of the subject-matter clashed with the vulgarity of some of his figures. Unlike Rubens and van Dyck, both of whom were knighted in the course of their careers, Jordaens was, in fact, completely ignored by the courts of Spain and Brussels
. Related Artists to JORDAENS, Jacob: | Henry Clarence Whaite | Edward Bailey | Pooley, Thomas | Roland Knight | Joseph Caraoud |
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