Jacob de Backer was active in Antwerp during the second half of the sixteenth century. His paintings are associated with the city\u2019s late Mannerist culture, in which expressive figures and ambitious religious and mythological subjects held a prominent place.<\/p>\n
Few details of his life can be established with certainty. The painter and writer Karel van Mander included an account of de Backer in his Schilder-boeck<\/em>, published in 1604, but that early testimony should be read as a historical source rather than as a fully verified biography. Even his birth and death dates are given differently across modern catalogues. For this reason, \u201cactive in Antwerp in the late sixteenth century\u201d<\/strong> is more precise than stating exact years without qualification.<\/p>\n De Backer\u2019s name is linked to compositions on biblical, allegorical and mythological themes. His work reflects the artistic exchanges between Antwerp and Italy that helped shape Netherlandish Mannerism.<\/p>\n Attribution is an essential part of his story. Several compositions survive in multiple versions, and scholars continue to examine which works may be by de Backer himself and which belong to his studio or to artists working in a related style. A catalogue description should therefore preserve distinctions such as \u201cattributed to,\u201d \u201cstudio of\u201d<\/strong> and \u201cfollower of\u201d<\/strong>: they do not mean the same thing.<\/p>\n Egidi MadeinItaly previously presented Dana\u00eb and the Golden Rain<\/em>, an early seventeenth-century painting attributed to a Venetian follower of Jacob de Backer<\/strong>. The work is no longer available<\/strong>; its catalogue entry remains online as a record of the painting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Antwerp painter associated with late sixteenth-century Mannerism, known through a body of religious and mythological works whose attributions remain a subject of study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":119572,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[6672,6684],"class_list":["post-100583","artisti","type-artisti","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tags-b-en","tags-d-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPaintings and attribution<\/h3>\n
A work formerly in our gallery<\/h3>\n