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

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