Jacob Jordaens

(1593 - 1678)

Jacques (Jacob) Jordaens 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. He also remained largely indifferent to Rubens and van Dyck's intellectual and courtly aspirations. He expressed this attitude in his art by avoiding idealistic treatment of his subject in contrast to these contemporaries.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Jordaens

As the Old Sang, So Pipe the Young
1638
oil on canvas
118.4 x 188.5 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/as-the-old-sang-so-pipe-the-young

Anthony van Dyck
(1599 - 1641)
 

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_van_Dyck

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
1640
Oil on canvas
115.5 cm x 207,5 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-lamentation-over-the-dead-christ-2

Peter Paul Rubens
(1577 - 1640 )
 

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens

The Adoration of the Magi
1624-1625
Oil on panel
447 x 336 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-adoration-of-the-magi-6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens

Frans Floris
(1519 – 1570)
 

Frans Floris, Frans Floris the Elder or Frans Floris de Vriendt  was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, print artist and tapestry designer. He is mainly known for his history paintings, allegorical scenes and portraits. He played an important role in the movement in Northern Renaissance painting referred to as Romanism. The Romanists had typically travelled to Italy to study the works of leading Italian High Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and their followers. Their art assimilated these Italian influences into the Northern painting tradition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Floris

The Fall of the Rebel Angels
1554
Oil on panel
303 x 220 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-fall-of-the-rebel-angels

 Lucas Cranach I
 (1472–1553)
 

Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm. He was a close friend of Martin Luther, and eleven portraits of that reformer by him survive. Cranach also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued to paint nude subjects from mythology and religion throughout his career.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder

Charity
1540
Oil on panel
50 x 34 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/charity

Joachim Patinir
(1480 - 1524)
 

Joachim Patinir was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects. He was born in Wallonia, but in his mature career worked in Antwerp, then the centre of the art market in the Low Countries. Patinir was a pioneer of landscape as an independent genre and he was the first Netherlandish painter to regard himself primarily as a landscape painter. He effectively invented the world landscape, a distinct style of panoramic northern Renaissance landscapes which is Patinir's important contribution to Western art. His work marks an important stage in the development of the representation of perspective in landscape painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Patinir

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
(1516-1517)
Oil on panel
17 x 21 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/landscape-with-the-flight-into-egypt

Quentin Matsys
(1466–1530)

Quentin Matsys was a Flemish painter in the Early Netherlandish tradition. He was born in Leuven. According to tradition, he trained as an ironsmith before becoming a painter. Matsys was active in Antwerp for over 20 years, creating numerous works with religious roots and satirical tendencies. He is regarded as the founder of the Antwerp school of painting, which became the leading school of painting in Flanders in the 16th century. He introduced new techniques and motifs as well as moralising subjects without completely breaking with tradition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Matsys

Altarpiece of the Joiners’ Guild
1511
oil on panel
260 x 503 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/altarpiece-of-the-joiners-guild