Jacob Jordaens, His Life and Work - Couverture souple

Rooses, Rooses

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1313820644 ISBN 13 : 9781313820646

Editeur : HardPress Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In the Antwerp school of painting in the XVII th century three figures tower above all others, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens. Sprung from the same race, they are intimately related with one another in certain characteristics of their art: rich colour, brilliant light, and elegant action; yet each, compelled by his own individuality, pursues a separate way. Rubens is the painter of heroes, as efficient as he is daring. Van Dyck, a poet, ennobles and charms. Jordaens depicts the populace and the burgher life, in his forcible and excessive manner glorifying material pleasure. Jordaens did not visit I taly, and he never came under the direct influence of foreign art. He was born in A ntwerp; and in that city, in his parents house and the circle of A dam van Noort, and afterwards in a home of his own, he spent his life among his fellow Flemings with their distinctive manners and customs. In this world to which he himself belonged he found a subject worthy of his study, and ample material for a painter who could transfer it to canvas. Held in high repute during his lifetime, he was overshadowed after his death by his two great contemporaries, and even by inferior ones. For a long period that art only was generally esteemed which bore an Academic stamp: it mattered not how insincere and lifeless it might have become if only it imitated the classics, whereas the artist who dared to cast off the yoke of tradition was inevitably banned. That was Jordaens fate throughout the XVIII thcentury and for a great part of the XIX th Happily, however, opinion has changed about art in general and about his art in particular. Many reputations which had suffered eclipse have been rehabilitated by the present generation, which reserves its highest appreciation for individual conception, sincere observation, and original treatment, irrespective of convention. Justice has been tardi
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HardPress Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1313820644
• ISBN 13: 9781313820646
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 422
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible