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Meleager and Atalanta

Meleager and Atalanta
Meleager and Atalanta - Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) - Prado Museum
Meleager and Atalanta - Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) - Prado Museum
Date: 1620-1623
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 152.3 x 240.5 cm
This painting titled Meleager and Atalanta was painted between 1620 and 1623, and is a oil on canvas work from Jacob Jordaens.

In Greek Mythology the story of Meleager and Atalanta is one intertwined with that of the Calydonian Hunt. Meleager was one of the Argonauts but on his return home, he found his father's kingdom of Calydon being ravaged by a monstrous boar, and so a call for heroes was sent out. Atalanta was a heroine who heeded the call, and she and Meleager fell in love, although misfortune meant that the pair never married.

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Jacob Jordaens

Born: 19 May 1593; Antwerp
Died: 18 September 1678; Antwerp
Nationality: Flemish
Art Movement: Baroque
Painting School: Flemish School, Antwerp School

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  • Artists
    • Jan Cossiers
    • Herbert James Draper
    • Jacob Jordaens
    • Peter Paul Rubens
    • Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder
    • Titian
    • John William Waterhouse
  • Museums
    • The National Gallery >
      • Artemis and Callisto (Titian)
      • Judgement of Paris (Rubens)
      • Leda and the Swan (After Michelangelo)
      • Death of Actaeon (Titian)
      • Pan and Syrinx (Boucher)
      • Diana and Callisto (Bril)
      • Bacchus and Ariadne (Titian)
    • Prado >
      • Meleager and Atalanta (Jordaens)
      • The Three Graces (Rubens)
      • Deucalion and Pyrrha (Rubens)
      • Sisyphus (Titian)
      • Punishment of Tythus (Titian)
      • Briseis given back to Achilles by Nestor (Rubens)
      • Narcissus (Cossiers)
      • Cadmus and Minerva (Jordaens)
      • Prometheus Carrying Fire (Cossiers)
      • Jupiter and Lycaon (Cossiers)
      • Orpheus and Eurydice (Rubens)
      • The Fall of Icarus (Gowy)
    • Musee d'Orsay >
      • Sarpedon (Levy)
    • The Louvre >
      • The Three Graces (Regnault)
      • The Abduction of Ganymede by Zeus (Le Sueur)
      • The Race between Hippomenes and Atalanta (Halle)
      • Ixion, King of the Lapiths, Deceived by Juno, Who He Wished to Seduce (Rubens)
      • Phaedra and Hippolytus (Guerin)
    • The Hermitage >
      • Feast of the Gods (Rottenhammer)
      • The Three Graces (Furini)
      • Helen Recognising Telemachus (Lagrenee)
  • Subjects
    • The Three Graces
    • Ganymede
    • Hylas and the Nymphs
    • Glaucus and Scylla
    • Prometheus
  • Index