Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Jacob Jordaens
(1593- 1678)
 
Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens 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. 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.

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

Plexippus and Toxeus steal the head of the Caledonian boar from Atalanta, given to her by Meleager
Between 1620 and 1623
Oil on canvas
152 x 240 cm
Museo del Prado
https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/wd/586c368b-922a-4ebb-b7dd-ede4b63cb4c7


In Greek mythology, Meleager  was a hero venerated in his temenos at Calydon in Aetolia. He was already famed as the host of the Calydonian boar hunt in the epic tradition that was reworked by Homer. Meleager is also mentioned as one of the Argonauts.
Atalanta meaning "equal in weight", is a heroine in Greek mythology.
There are two versions of the huntress Atalanta: one from Arcadia, whose parents were Iasus and Clymene and who is primarily known from the tales of the Calydonian boar hunt and the Argonauts; and the other from Boeotia, who is the daughter of King Schoeneus and is primarily noted for her skill in the footrace. In both versions, Atalanta was a local figure allied to the goddess Artemis; in such oral traditions, minor characters were often assigned different names, resulting in minor regional variations.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meleager
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalanta

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