Author: JORDAENS, JACOB (1593-1678), ARTIST; AUWERA, JOOST VANDER, EDITOR; SCHAUDIES, IRENE, EDITOR
Title: Jordaens and the antique / edited by Joost Vander Auwera and Irene Schaudies; contributions by Koenraad Brosens, Nello Forti Grazzini, Stefaan Hautekeete, Ulrich Heinen, Justus Lange, Irene Schaudies, Timo Trümper, Joost Vander Auwera, Nico Van Hout, Sabine van Sprang
Description: Brussels: Mercatorfonds; Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium; Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel 2012. 1st edition. Fine copy in the original colour printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; 316 pages: illustrations (black and white. and colour); decorated end-papers; 29 cm. Notes; Catalogue accompanies exhibition held 12 October 2012 - 27 January 2013. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Brussels; 1 March - 16 June 2013. Museum Fridericianum. Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel. Kassel. Bibliography: pages 312-316. Contents; Introduction: Jacob Jordeans and Jacques Jordaens (1593-1678). The myth of the painter and the painter of myth / Justus Lange. Irene Schaudies and Joost Vander Auwera -- Small Latin. less Greek: Jordaens and the Humanist tradition / Irene Schaudies -- Jordaens. not Jordaens: on the use of model studies in the 17th century / Nico Van Hout -- Antiquity and its uses: Jordaens teaching himself / Irene Schaudies -- Psyche. Satyrs. philosophers: Jordaens and the wisdom of the ancients / Ulrich Heinen -- The abundance of peace: Jordaen's allegories of fertility / Joost Vander Auwera -- The triumph of Bacchus / Irene Schaudies -- Monumental cabinet paintings / Irene Schaudies -- Erudition and originality: Jordaen's tapestry series with themes from classical antiquity / Koenraad Brosens -- Commercial drive and refinement: the later drawings / Irene Schaudies -- Jordaen's antique subjects in historical collections / Justus Lange. Summary; 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. Subjects; Jordaens. Jacob 1593-1678 - Themes. motives. Jordaens. Jacob 1593-1678 - Exhibitions. Civilization. Classical. in art - Exhibitions. Classical antiquities in art. - Exhibitions. Painting. Flemish - 17th century - Themes. motives - Exhibitions. Narrative painting. Flemish - 17th century - Exhibitions. Painting. Baroque - Belgium - Antwerp - Exhibitions. Mythology. Classical. in art - Exhibitions. Art. Flemish - 17th century - Themes. motives - Exhibitions. Baroque art; Individual artists. ART / History / Renaissance. ART / Individual Artists / Monographs. Weight in Kg appr.:

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