Who is the Flemish artist that painted c. 1620 oil-on-canvas artwork "Jupiter and Antiope"?
Around the year 1620, the late Baroque Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck created the oil-on-canvas painting "Jupiter and Antiope", one in a series of two similar paintings. One painting is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent; the other in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne.
The story behind the painting is based on a belief regarding the seduction of Antiope by the god Zeus in Greek mythology, later imported into Roman mythology and told of the god Jupiter. According to this myth, Antiope, the beautiful daughter of King Nycteus of Thebes, was surprised and seduced by Zeus in the form of a satyr. She became pregnant and bore the twins Amphion and Zethus, who later killed Nycteus' brother Lycus in revenge for his treatment of Antiope.
Unequivocally, Anthony van Dyck (March 1599 – December 1641), the Flemish Baroque artist, became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy. Between 1613 and 1632, van Dyck travelled all over Europe – from his native Antwerp (where he began working as a painter, initially under Hendrick van Balen and later with Peter Paul Rubens), to England for a brief stay at the court of James I and then to Italy, where he had the chance to get to know the old masters. He then finally settled back in Flanders.
Van Dyck has become well known for painting religious subjects, the "Saint Rosalia" art series, mythological subjects, portraits, and several self-portraits.
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