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Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints. He was a prolific artist who created biblical , mythological , and allegorical compositions, genre scenes , landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings and portraits. [1]
Jacob Jordaens, Baroque artist whose boisterous scenes of peasant life and sensuous allegories made him one of the most important painters of 17th-century Flanders. His notable works included The King Drinks, The Satyr and the Peasant, and Prometheus Bound. Learn more about Jordaens’s life and art.
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Learn about the life and works of Jacob Jordaens, a leading Flemish painter of his day who never travelled to Italy. See his history paintings, genre scenes, portraits and altarpieces influenced by Rubens, Brueghel and Caravaggio.
- Flemish
- September 18, 1678
- Antwerp, Belgium
Learn about Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), a leading Flemish painter after Rubens and Van Dyck. Discover his style, influences, commissions and works in the National Gallery, London.
Jacob Jordaens was a Flemish painter who worked in Antwerp and assisted Peter Paul Rubens. He painted portraits, religious and mythological scenes in a Caravaggesque style.
Jacob Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he...
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The eldest child of a wealthy cloth merchant, Jacob Jordaens was baptized in Antwerp on May 20, 1593. In 1607, at the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to the Mannerist history painter Adam van Noort.
