Nymphs at the source of love by Jacob Jordaens

Painting of the Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens “Nymphs at the source of love.” The size of the painting is 131 x127 cm, canvas, oil. As the personifications of the charm of nature, the nymphs were portrayed in art as beautiful young girls with wonderful hair, with a dress from wreaths and flowers, sometimes in a pose of dancing at fountains or springs, naked completely or with bare legs and hands, with flowing hair.

The sculptures of the nymphs of the springs often had as their attribute the shell they held near the bosom, or the vessel; other nymphs, for example, dryads were depicted in the forest more often or next to a lonely mighty tree, the oreads seemed to be sitting in a reverie on a high rock. Nymphs were dedicated to grottoes and caves by the ancient Greeks, sometimes sanctuaries, springs and fountains were built.