Artist: JORDAENS, Jacob Painting: Christ Driving the Merchants from the Temple zg Introduction: c. 1650
Oil on canvas, 288 x 436 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
St Charles Cares for the Plague Victims of Milan s Painting ID:: 7704
Artist: JORDAENS, Jacob Painting: The Purification of the Temple (mk05) Introduction: Canvas,113 1/2 x 171 1/2''(288 x 436 cm)Acquired for Louis XV in 1751 by the intervention of the painter Natoire INV
Flemish painter (b. 1593, Antwerpen, d. 1678, Antwerpen).
Flemish painter, tapestry designer and draughtsman. In the context of 17th-century Flemish art, he emerges as a somewhat complicated figure. His oeuvre, the fruit of a continual artistic development, is characterized by great stylistic versatility, to which the length of his career contributed. His religious, mythological and historical representations evolved from the rhetorical prolixity of the Baroque into a vernacular, sometimes almost caricatural, formal idiom. The lack of idealistic treatment in his work is undoubtedly the factor that most removed Jordaens's art from that of his great Flemish contemporaries Rubens and van Dyck. Jordaens's officially commissioned works included many paintings in which the sublimity of the subject-matter clashed with the vulgarity of some of his figures. Unlike Rubens and van Dyck, both of whom were knighted in the course of their careers, Jordaens was, in fact, completely ignored by the courts of Spain and Brussels
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