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JACOB JORDAENS (1593-1678)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 508 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JACOB See also:JORDAENS (1593-1678)  , Flemish painter, was See also:born and died at See also:Antwerp . He studied, like See also:Rubens, under See also:Adam See also:van Noort, and his See also:marriage with his See also:master's daughter in 1616, the See also:year after his See also: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 masters as he found at See also:home; but a far more potent See also:influence was exerted upon his See also:style by Rubens, who employed him sometimes to reproduce small sketches in large . See also:Jordaens is second to Rubens alone in their See also:special See also:department of the Flemish school . In both there is the same warmth of See also:colour, truth to nature, mastery of See also:chiaroscuro and See also:energy of expression; but Jordaens is wanting in dignity of conception, and is inferior in choice of forms, in the See also:character of his heads, and in correctness of See also:drawing . Not seldom he sins against See also:good See also: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 also in biblical, mythological, See also:historical and allegorical subjects, and is well-known as a portrait painter . He also etched some plates . See the elaborate See also:work on the painter, by Max Rooses (1908) .

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