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Artista

Jacob Jordaens

Nacionalidad
Flandes
Nacimiento/Muerte
1593-1678

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The Virgin and Child with St. John and His Parents

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The Virgin and Child with St. John and His Parents

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Destacado artista barroco, Jacob Jordaens es recordado por sus escenas mitológicas y alegóricas, pinturas religiosas, escenas de la vida cotidiana y retratos. Sus robustas figuras muestran su interés por el claroscuro (el contraste entre luces y sombras en el arte) y la influencia del artista Peter Paul Rubens.

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Jacques "Jacob" 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. After the death of Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he became the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his time. Unlike those illustrious contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study the Antique and Italian painting and, except for a few short trips to locations elsewhere in the Low Countries, he resided in Antwerp his entire life. He also remained largely indifferent to Rubens and van Dyck's intellectual and courtly aspirations. He expressed this attitude in his art by avoiding idealistic treatment of his subject in contrast to these contemporaries. His principal patrons were the wealthy bourgeoisie and local churches. Only late in his career did he receive royal…