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Jacob Jordaens Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1678
Jacob Jordeans was born on May 19, 1593, the first of eleven children, to the wealthy linen merchant Jacob Jordaens Sr. and Barbara van Wolschaten in Antwerp. Little is known about Jordaens's early education. It can be assumed that he received the advantages of the education usually provided for children of his social class. This assumption is supported by his clear handwriting, his competence in French and in his knowledge of mythology. Jordaens familiarity with biblical subjects is evident in his many religious paintings, and his personal interaction with the Bible was strengthened by his later conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism. Like Rubens, he studied under Adam van Noort, who was his only teacher. During this time Jordaens lived in Van Noort's house and became very close to the rest of the family. After eight years of training with Van Noort, he enrolled in the Guild of St. Luke as a "waterscilder", or watercolor artist. This medium was often used for preparing tapestry cartoons in the seventeenth century. although examples of his earliest watercolor works are no longer extant. In the same year as his entry into the guild, 1616, he married his teacher's eldest daughter, Anna Catharina van Noort, with whom he had three children. In 1618, Jordaens bought a house in Hoogstraat (the area in Antwerp that he grew up in). He would then later buy the adjoining house to expand his household and workspace in 1639, mimicking Rubens's house built two decades earlier. He lived and worked here until his death in 1678.
Jordaens never made the traditional trip to Italy to study classical and Renaissance art. Despite this, he made many efforts to study prints or works of Italian masters available in northern Europe. For example, Jordaens is known to have studied Titian, Veronese, Caravaggio, and Bassano, either through prints, copies or originals (such as Caravaggio's Madonna of the Rosary). His work, however, betrays local traditions, especially the genre traditions of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, in honestly depicting Flemish life with authenticity and showing common people in the act of celebratory expressions of life. His commissions frequently came from wealthy local Flemish patrons and clergy, although later in his career he worked for courts and governments across Europe. Besides a large output of monumental oil paintings he was a prolific tapestry designer, a career that reflects his early training as a "watercolor" painter.
Jordaens' importance can also be seen by his number of pupils; the Guild of St. Luke records fifteen official pupils from 1621 to 1667, but six others were recorded as pupils in court documents and not the Guild records, so it is probable that he had more students than officially recorded. Among them were his cousin and his son Jacob. Like Rubens and other artists at that time, Jordaens' studio relied on his assistants and pupils in the production of his paintings. Not many of these pupils went on to fame themselves,however a position in Jordaens's studio was highly desirable for young artists from across Europe. |
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Jacob Jordaens Odysseus Pushkin Museum, Moscow
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Jacob Jordaens Atlanta and Meleager 222 1617-18
Koninklijk Museum, Antwerp
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Jacob Jordaens The Coronation of The Virgin by the Holy Trinity Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Jacob Jordaens Christ Driving the Merchants from the Temple Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Jacob Jordaens The King Drinks 1638 Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts, Brussels
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Jacob Jordaens Bean Feast Art History Museum, Vienna
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Jacob Jordaens The Holy Family with St.Anne, the Young Baptist and his Parents Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Jacob Jordaens The Four Evangelists 1625 Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Jacob Jordaens The Painter's Family 1621-22 Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Jacob Jordaens The Itinerant Musicians Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Jacob Jordaens Satyr at the Peasant's House 1620 Pinakothek, Munich
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Jacob Jordaens A Young Married Couple 1615-20 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Jacob Jordaens The King Drinks Celebration of the Feast of the Epiphany (mk05) Canvas,60 x 80 1/4''(152 x 204 cm)Acquired in 1793
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Jacob Jordaens The Four Evangelists (mk05) Canvas,53 x 46 1/2''(134 x 118 cm)Collection of Louis XVI;acquired in 1784
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Jacob Jordaens Allegory of Fertility (mk08) c.1622
Oil on canvas
180x241cm
Brussels,Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts
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Jacob Jordaens The Family of the Arist (mk08) c.1621
Oil on canvas
18x187cm
Madrid,Museo del Prado
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Jacob Jordaens The Satyr and the Farmer's Family (mk08) 1620
Oil on canvas-coverde panel
174x205cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
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Jacob Jordaens Allegory of Fertility (Homage to Pomona) (mk14) c 1622
Oil on canvas,180 x 241 cm
Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique,Brussels
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Jacob Jordaens The Artst and his Family (mk45) c.1620/22
Oil on canvas
181x187cm
Madrid,Museo Nacional del Prado
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Jacob Jordaens Details of The Artist and his Family (mk45)
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Jacob Jordaens
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Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1678
Jacob Jordeans was born on May 19, 1593, the first of eleven children, to the wealthy linen merchant Jacob Jordaens Sr. and Barbara van Wolschaten in Antwerp. Little is known about Jordaens's early education. It can be assumed that he received the advantages of the education usually provided for children of his social class. This assumption is supported by his clear handwriting, his competence in French and in his knowledge of mythology. Jordaens familiarity with biblical subjects is evident in his many religious paintings, and his personal interaction with the Bible was strengthened by his later conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism. Like Rubens, he studied under Adam van Noort, who was his only teacher. During this time Jordaens lived in Van Noort's house and became very close to the rest of the family. After eight years of training with Van Noort, he enrolled in the Guild of St. Luke as a "waterscilder", or watercolor artist. This medium was often used for preparing tapestry cartoons in the seventeenth century. although examples of his earliest watercolor works are no longer extant. In the same year as his entry into the guild, 1616, he married his teacher's eldest daughter, Anna Catharina van Noort, with whom he had three children. In 1618, Jordaens bought a house in Hoogstraat (the area in Antwerp that he grew up in). He would then later buy the adjoining house to expand his household and workspace in 1639, mimicking Rubens's house built two decades earlier. He lived and worked here until his death in 1678.
Jordaens never made the traditional trip to Italy to study classical and Renaissance art. Despite this, he made many efforts to study prints or works of Italian masters available in northern Europe. For example, Jordaens is known to have studied Titian, Veronese, Caravaggio, and Bassano, either through prints, copies or originals (such as Caravaggio's Madonna of the Rosary). His work, however, betrays local traditions, especially the genre traditions of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, in honestly depicting Flemish life with authenticity and showing common people in the act of celebratory expressions of life. His commissions frequently came from wealthy local Flemish patrons and clergy, although later in his career he worked for courts and governments across Europe. Besides a large output of monumental oil paintings he was a prolific tapestry designer, a career that reflects his early training as a "watercolor" painter.
Jordaens' importance can also be seen by his number of pupils; the Guild of St. Luke records fifteen official pupils from 1621 to 1667, but six others were recorded as pupils in court documents and not the Guild records, so it is probable that he had more students than officially recorded. Among them were his cousin and his son Jacob. Like Rubens and other artists at that time, Jordaens' studio relied on his assistants and pupils in the production of his paintings. Not many of these pupils went on to fame themselves,however a position in Jordaens's studio was highly desirable for young artists from across Europe.
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