Holiday Diana by Jacob Jordaens

Painting by artist Jacob Jordaens “Rest of Diana.” The size of the picture is 203 x 264 cm, canvas, oil.

The individuality of the Flemish painter Jordaens manifested itself in a special type of large-scale composition, where the figures presented in life-size figures are brought to the forefront of the picture and fill the entire surface of the canvas devoid of spatial depth; the low horizon chosen by the artist in his paintings enhances the impression of the heaviness of bodies and objects. These techniques of painting were probably connected with the active work of the young Jordans on the tapestries for tapestries with special rules for composition and perspective.

In the painting “Rest of Diana” and other paintings on mythological subjects, the artist presents the same full-blooded types.