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Abraham Janssens (1575 - 1632)
Abraham Janssens
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Mythology Narratives Art Work
| Name: |
Abraham Janssens |
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Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium |
| Nationality: |
Flemish |
| Birth: |
1575 |
| Death: |
1632 |
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Mythology Narratives |
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oil on canvas |
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Biography
| Though he has been called the most original artist working in Antwerp at the beginning of the seventeenth century, Abraham Janssens remains unjustly overshadowed by his slightly older contemporary, Peter Paul Rubens. Janssens has an important place as a representative of the Italianate style within Flemish art and a master of chiaroscuro. His solid, massive forms and blocky compositions present a visual alternative to the fluid dynamism of Rubens's decorative approach. Together with Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrik van Balen, Janssens represents the continuation of older pictorial traditions in the early decades of seventeenthcentury Antwerp. At age ten he was apprenticed to Jan Snellinx. His earliest known signed and dated painting, the Diana and Callisto (1601)includes native Flemish traditions and Janssens's own sense for massive form. The painting must have brought him success since he was elected dean of the Antwerp Guild in 1606 and commissioned by the Antwerp city council to paint the Scaldis, or The Scheldt and the City of Antwerp. Around 1620 Janssens's style changed; the forms became relaxed and the contours less rigorous. Evidence of his new approach can be found in such works as the Peace and Abundance from 1622. |
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