Jacob Jordaens

Jacob Jordaens (May 19, 1593, Antwerp - October 18, 1678, ibid), Flemish painter.

The son of a cloth merchant, to 1607 he studied in Antwerp in A. van North, whose daughter married. Since 1615 Master Guild of St. Luke, 1621 - Dean of the guild. Was influenced by Caravaggio, Rubens, Janssens. Headed painting workshop. In 1650 he moved to Calvinism, but continued to carry out orders for Catholic churches and monasteries. Painted religious, mythological, historical subjects, portraits and genre scenes, master of monumental painting, watercolors.

The King Drinks

The Bean King

Jordaens liked to portray burgher family, the carefree feasting at the banquet table, then gathered together for a family concert. Among the favorite subjects - a holiday "Bean King", which is celebrated on the day of worship of the Magi to the Christ child. In the painting "Bean King" (c. 1638, Hermitage, until 1656, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) reigns the spirit of unbridled fun, bright and articulate each character; avoiding sharp contrasts of light and shade, master influenced by Rubens refers to softer hot colors with many shades of golden-pink to golden brown. Full gruff humor everyday scene takes on the features of monumental significance.

The King Drinks

As the Old Sang the Young Play Pipes

Jordaens Jacob A satyr and a peasant family Sun

"Satyr on a visit at the peasant."

Most clearly manifested in originality Jordaens those canvases dominated genre motifs; he readily draws stories in popular proverbs, fables, proverbs. The museums of Moscow, Kassel, Budapest, Munich, Brussels contains several versions of the painting "Satyr on a visit at the peasant," written on the subject of Aesop's fables. Goat-footed satyr, who visited the peasant meal, surprised duplicity of people - the behavior of a peasant who blows on porridge to cool it, whereas before he blew on his hands to warm them. And a satyr and the peasant - children of the same nature - are closely clustered around the table, their heavy bodies, ruddy face, rough feet, everyday objects in the foreground transferred to plastic palpably. Wide thick smear, large colorful spots of blue, red, yellow, golden-brown tones, saturated hues distinguish paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow (c. 1620).

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