Jacob Jordaens and the Antique (Agrarian Studies) - Hardcover

Auwera, Joost Vander; Schaudies, Irene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300188714 ISBN 13: 9780300188714

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) was a Flemish Baroque painter whose work has largely been overshadowed by his contemporaries Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck. Providing new insight on the artist as well as art historical context for his works, Jacob Jordaens and Antiquity emphasizes his strategic intelligence with respect to imagery and the art market and challenges the common characterization of Jordaens as a bourgeois artist of genre scenes. Jordaens's work is examined as an example of classical culture being introduced into the commercial and intellectual life of Antwerp. He was an artist with an unusual talent for conveying imagery from classical literature, ranging from Satyr and Peasant to Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man. Focusing on the theme of antiquity, this volume features eighty paintings, drawings, tapestries, and sculptures from private collections and major museums, including the Museo Nacional del Prado in Spain and the Statens Museum for Kunst in Denmark.

About this title

About the Author:

Joost Vander Auwera is professor in art history at Ghent University and curator at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Irene Schaudies is scientific attache at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0300188714
• ISBN 13: 9780300188714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320