page_title: Jacob Jordaens
section_title: The Flight of Lot and his Family from Sodom
hierarchical_section_title: Jacob Jordaens / Works / The Flight of Lot and his Family from Sodom
context_page_description: Jacob Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. Unlike those contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations. In fact, except for a few short trips to locations in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries.
  Like Rubens, Jordaens painted altarpieces, mythological, and allegorical scenes, and after 1640—the year Rubens died—he was the most important painter in Antwerp for large-scale commissions and the status of his patrons increased in general. However, he is best known today for his numerous large genre scenes based on proverbs in the manner of his contemporary Jan Brueghel the Elder, depicting The King Drinks and As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young.
context_section_description: Inspired by Ruebens, Jordaens painted his iconoclastic duplicate in oils on an 66 by 78 inches (1,700 mm × 2,000 mm) canvas in 1620. Currently housed at The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the Flemish painting depicts the tale found in the Book of Genesis.
caption: Jordaens' The Flight of Lot and His family from Sodom, 1620
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