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Mercury And Argus (Jordaens)
''Mercury and Argus'' is an oil painting on canvas executed ca. 1620 by the Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens. It is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.Mercure et Argus on the website of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon It is the first of many versions that Jordaens painted of Ovid's rendering of the mythological story of the murder by Mercury (mythology), Mercury of the giant Argus Panoptes, Argus.Jacob Jordaens, ''Mercury and Argus'' at Christie'sJacob Jord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordaens
Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. Unlike those contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations.d'Hulst, pp. 23 In fact, except for a few short trips to locations elsewhere in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries.d'Hulst, pp. 24–25. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted altarpieces, mythological, and allegorical scenes, and after 1640—the year Rubens died—he was the most important painter in Antwerp for large-scale commissions and the status of his patrons increased in general.d'Hulst, p. 26–27. However, he is best known today for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
