1612
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Jupiter Rebuked by Venus is a 1612 oil by Abraham Janssens I, a Baroque work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
Abraham Janssens shows Venus standing tall, one hand on her hip. Jupiter sits on a cloud, looking grumpy. The scene is packed with other gods watching the show. Janssens visited Rome for five years. He studied old sculptures and Raphael’s work. Here he copies Raphael’s idea but adds his own bold style. See it in person at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Abraham Janssens, Peter Paul Rubens's major competitor in Antwerp in the 1610s, produced monumental paintings of mythological and secular subjects. Influenced by his five-year stay in Rome, he injected his paintings with recognizable quotations from ancient sculpture and Italian Renaissance painting. This scene of Venus reprimanding the visibly annoyed Jupiter on Mount Olympus is a direct reference to a composition by the Italian artist Raphael on the ceiling of the Villa Farnesina in Rome. Janssens, however, enhanced the power and dynamism of the figures by emphasizing their musculature and…
John Gage Predergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (died 1902), Durham; offered for sale by his estate, Christie’s, London, 20 December 1902, lot 115, as Luca Giordano, bought in. Private collection, Ireland. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, 17 November 1982, no. 12, to Patrick Matthiesen, London; sold to the Art Institute, December 1986.
Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1986–87 (Chicago, 1987), 22–23, 56. Guy C. Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America (Antwerp, 1992), 341, no. 274. Richie Hofmann, "My Ekphrasis," Nicholas Hall (blog), May 27, 2021, https://www.nicholashall.art/journal/my-ekphrasis/
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Abraham Janssens I, Abraham Janssen I or Abraham Janssens van Nuyssen (1575–1632) was a Flemish painter, who is known principally for his large religious and mythological works, which show the influence of Caravaggio.
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