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What emerges from this definitive show is that Jordaens was not just a poor man's Rubens-who in that day was the acknowledged titan who bestrode not only the narrow world of Antwerp but all the courts of Europe. Certainly many of Jordaens' paintings echo his master...
Indulgent Affection. Jordaens scorned Van Dyck's elegancies. In contrast to Rubens, he looked at the roistering pleasures of a good burgher's family life without feeling any need to translate them into the realm of gods, goddesses or nymphs. He was more interested in the play of...
Born in another age or in another country, Jacob Jordaens might have been considered a great painter. But the Low Countries in the 1600s, in spite of wars with Spain and brutal religious repression, saw the flowering of one incomparable painter after another-Vermeer and Rembrandt in Holland, Rubens and...
Princely Portrait. Some of the triumphs, in fact, are being credited to Jordaens for the first time. Britain's Michael Jaffé, a Rubens scholar who assembled the show, perused the world's great treasure houses, ended by reat-tnbuting no fewer than 30 paintings and some 70...
If scholars sometimes seem bafflingly mercurial as to just who had a brush in which painting, there is good reason. Every important master in those times-including Jordaens-kept an atelier that employed dozens of apprentices to help execute the large decorative panels that were the order of the day...