Jacob Jordaens (19/05/1593 – 10/18/1678), Flemish painter. The son of cloth merchant. In 1607 he studied in A. van North, collaborated with PP Rubens. Created a large workshop to carry out multiple orders.
In art, Jordaens with great force identified the popular basis and realistic aspirations of the Flemish school, are her features, like a bright sensory perception of life, a powerful modeling forms with a brush, abiding optimism. However, in the work of Jordaens played a significant role because of the old Netherlands tradition and the legacy of Caravaggio. In the early works of Jordaens ("Family Portrait, ca. 1615, The Hermitage, Leningrad; Adoration of the Shepherds, 1618, Nat. Museum, Stockholm) are related karavadzhizmu plebeian specificity figures are closely grouped in the foreground, the underlined material objects, contrasting light and shade.
In the best scenes Jordaens, executed in 1620 – 1630-ies. ("Education of Jupiter", 1620, Maps, gal., Kassel, "Family Portrait", ca. 1622-24, Prado, Madrid; "Allegory of Fertility", ca. 1625-28, Museum of Ancient Art Society, Brussels; " Bean King ", 1638, Hermitage), defined particularly its realism – a passion to full peasants and burghers types, strong heavy shapes and rich detail, the preferred genre and genre interpretation of religious and mythological so energetic and powerful paintings with a predominance of dense sonorous warm tones .
Since 1640-ies. Jordaens wrote parade, overloaded figures compositions, which sometimes felt bombast and bathos (mural "Triumph of Prince Frederick Henry of Orange, 1652, the palace Haisten Bos, The Hague). Lit.: (Smolskaya H.), Jacob Jordaens. (Album), M., 1959; Puyvelde L. van, Jordaens, P. – Brux., 1953.