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JORDAENS, JACOB (1593-1678)

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JORDAENS, JACOB (1593-1678)

JORDAENS, See also:
JACOB
JACOB, JOHN (1812-1858)
JACOB (1593-1678) , Flemish painter, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and died at See also:

Antwerp. He studied, like See also:

RUBENS, PETER PAUL (1577-164o)

Rubens, under See also:

Adam See also:

VAN

van Noort, and his See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage with his See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master's daughter in 1616, the See also:

YEAR

year after his See also:

ADMISSION

admission to the gild of painters, prevented him from visiting See also:

Rome. He was forced to content himself with studying such examples of the See also:

ITALIAN

Italian masters as he found at See also:

home; but a far more potent See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence was exerted upon his See also:

style by Rubens, who employed him sometimes to reproduce small sketches in large. Jordaens is second to Rubens alone in their See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the Flemish school. In both there is the same warmth of See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, truth to nature, mastery of See also:

CHIAROSCURO (from the Ital. chiaro, Iight or brightness, and oscuro, darkness or shade)

chiaroscuro and See also:

ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy of expression; but Jordaens is wanting in dignity of conception, and is inferior in choice of forms, in the See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of his heads, and in correctness of See also:

DRAWING

drawing. Not seldom he sins against See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste, and in some of his humorous pieces the coarseness is only atoned for by the animation. Of these last he seems in some cases to have painted several replicas. He employed his See also:

PENCIL (Lat. penicillus, brush, literally little tail)

pencil also in biblical, mythological, See also:

HISTORICAL

historical and allegorical subjects, and is well-known as a portrait painter. He also etched some plates. See the elaborate See also:

WORK

work on the painter, by Max Rooses (1908).

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