JACQUES JOARDENS (1593

Among the three most renowned Flemish Baroque painters?Rubens, Van Dyck and Joardens?Jacques Joardens (15931678), also known as Jac ob Jordaens, is undoubtedly the least studied. Yet the image of Joardens as a poor mans Rubens obscures the better part of his vari ed oeuvre. This book elucidates the more erudite side of Joardens production by zeroing in on a single theme, The Allegory of Ferti lity, principal versions of which are held in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels and the Wallace Collection in Lo ndon. It ex...[Read more]