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Jacob Jordaens

1593 - 1678

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Jacques (Jacob) Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints. He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings and portraits. After the death of Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he became the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his time. Unlike those illustrious contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study the Antique and Italian painting and, except for a few short trips to locations elsewhere in the Low Countries, he resided in Antwerp his entire life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Jordaens is the 169th most popular painter (down from 160th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 57th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Belgian Painter.

Jacob Jordaens is most famous for his paintings of mythological and biblical scenes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jacob Jordaens ranks 169 out of 2,023. Before him are Carl Larsson, Jan Matejko, Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, Paul Delaroche, and Umberto Boccioni. After him are Tamara de Lempicka, Theo van Gogh, Maurice de Vlaminck, James Ensor, Anselm Kiefer, and Benozzo Gozzoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1593, Jacob Jordaens ranks 4. Before him are Mumtaz Mahal, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Georges de La Tour. After him are Toyotomi Hideyori, George I Rákóczi, Nicolaes Tulp, Matthäus Merian, Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena, Balthasar van der Ast, Anthony van Diemen, and Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1678, Jacob Jordaens ranks 1. After him are Wu Sangui, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Anna Maria van Schurman, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, François Pierre La Varenne, Erasmus Quellinus the Younger, Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Karel Dujardin, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Antoine III de Gramont, and Antonio de Pereda.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jacob Jordaens ranks 67 out of 1,190. Before him are Yves Chauvin (1930), Marguerite Yourcenar (1903), Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (1927), Dominique Pire (1910), Isabella of Austria (1501), and Léon Degrelle (1906). After him are François Englert (1932), Django Reinhardt (1910), James Ensor (1860), Hugo van der Goes (1440), Gerard de Ridefort (1141), and Maxime Weygand (1867).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Jacob Jordaens ranks 8. Before him are Anthony van Dyck (1599), René Magritte (1898), Frans Hals (1582), Rogier van der Weyden (1390), Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564), and Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568). After him are James Ensor (1860), Hugo van der Goes (1440), Quentin Matsys (1466), Hubert van Eyck (1366), Philippe de Champaigne (1602), and Paul Delvaux (1897).

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