Odysseus in the cave of Polyphemus by Jacob Jordaens, first half of 17th century.

* May 19 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter ( d. 1678 )

* October 18 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter ( b. 1593 )

In Jacob Jordaens ' ' The Family of the Artist ', now in the Prado, Madrid, a Triton is depicted gripping, perhaps crushing, a child with its snake-like tail, a scene watched over by an exotic parrot.

Infancy of Zeus, by Jacob Jordaens, early 1630s ( Louvre Museum ).

* Jacob Jordaens Ivory Catchfly

" The subject is illustrated in paintings of ( roughly chronologically ) Nicolas Poussin, Jacob Jordaens, François Boucher, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Annibale Carracci, Andrea Casali, Arnold Bocklin, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and Maxfield Parrish.

File: Jakob Jordaens 008. jpg | Meleager and Atalanta ( 17th century ) by Jacob Jordaens

This theme played out with many artists from the Low Countries in the first few decades of the 17th century, where it became associated with the Utrecht Caravaggisti like Gerrit van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen, and with Flemish Baroque painters such as Jacob Jordaens.

The collection consisted of Rembrandt ( 13 paintings ), Rubens ( 11 paintings ), Jacob Jordaens ( 7 paintings ), Antoon van Dyck ( 5 paintings ), Paolo Veronese ( 5 paintings ), Frans Hals ( 3 paintings, including Portrait of a Young Man with a Glove ), Raphael ( 2 paintings ), Holbein ( 2 paintings ), Titian ( 1 painting ), Jan Steen ( The Idlers ), Hendrick Goltzius, Dirck van Baburen, Hendrick van Balen and Gerrit van Honthorst.

Inspired by the paintings of Jacob Jordaens, David Teniers and Jan Steen, Verhaeren described in a direct and often provocative, naturalistic way his country and the Flemish people.

Jacob Jordaens ( 19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678 ) was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting.

Abduction of Europe, Jacob Jordaens, 1615 / 16, Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Jacob Jordaens was born on 19 May 1593, the first of eleven children, to the wealthy linen merchant Jacob Jordaens Sr. and Barbara van Wolschaten in Antwerp.

Although Jacob Jordaens did not specialize, he often repeated a theme based on a proverb that depicted a wide range of characters of a variety of ages, crowded in a festive scene around a banquet table.

Prometheus, c. 1640 is an example of the influence of both Rubens and Frans Snyders on Jacob Jordaens.

One year after his death, Jacob Jordaens ' son donated " twenty-five Flemish pounds to the Camer van den Huysarmen in Antwerp.

Apparently this was all done in following correspondence with a will that Jacob Jordaens left behind.

Jacob Jordaens.

Detail from La Familia de Jordaens en un Jardín by Jacob Jordaens show swelling of the metacarpal-phalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joints.

* Homiletic commentaries on the Old Testament: the Hexaemeron ( Six Days of Creation ); De Helia et ieiunio ( On Elijah and Fasting ); De Iacob et vita beata ( On Jacob and the Happy Life ); De Abraham ; De Cain et Abel ; De Ioseph ( Joseph ); De Isaac vel anima ( On Isaac, or The Soul ); De Noe ( Noah ); De interpellatione Iob et David ( On the Prayer of Job and David ); De patriarchis ( On the Patriarchs ); De Tobia ( Tobit ); Explanatio psalmorum ( Explanation of the Psalms ); Explanatio symboli ( Commentary on the Symbol ).

The Old Testament describes a number of marriages, some of the best known being Adam and Eve ; Abraham, Sarah and Hagar ; Isaac and Rebekah ; Jacob, Rachel and Leah ; Boaz and Ruth ; David, Michal, Ahinoam, Abigail, Maachah, Haggith, Abital, Eglah and Bathsheba ; and Hosea and the prostitute Gomer, whom he married at God's command.

Traditionally, both Judaism and Christianity believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for Jews the God of the Tanakh, for Christians the God of the Old Testament, the creator of the universe.

# The Old Testament, in which a line of kings was created by God through the prophecy of Jacob / Israel, who created his son Judah to be king and retain the sceptre until the coming of the Messiah, alongside the line of priests created in his other son, Levi.

On the latter Jacob Grimm does not make a direct association to the elves, but other researchers see a possible connection to the shining light elves of Old Norse.

Many of the tales in the Golden Legend of Jacob de Voragine also embody folklore elements in a Christian context, as well as the tales of Old Mr. Brennan.

Jacob Grimm lectured on legal antiquities, historical grammar, literary history, and diplomatics, explained Old German poems, and commented on the Germania of Tacitus.

The tradition was developed in response to the Old Testament Genesis 50: 1-14 from Genesis in which Joseph mourns the death of his father Jacob ( Israel ) for seven days.

* Upon the death of Anund Jacob, he is succeeded by his brother Emund the Old as king of Sweden.

The Old Dutch Parsonage, home of Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh and John Frelinghuysen ( 1727 – 1754 ) | John Frelinghuysen

Near the Wallace House is the Old Dutch Parsonage, where Reverend Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, a founder and first president of Rutgers University, then called Queens College, lived.

Colonist and landowner, Jacob C. Darst was also a member of the Gonzales Ranging Company relief force to the Alamo in 1836 and was one of the original " Old Eighteen ," defenders of the Gonzales cannon.

# The Old Testament Prophets and Patriarchs — the latter including the twelve sons of Jacob — often to either side of an icon of Our Lady of the Sign ; and

He continues by citing Old Testament examples of forms of " honour ": " Jacob bowed to the ground before Esau, his brother, and also before the tip of his son Joseph's staff ( Genesis 33: 3 ).

Beth Jacob, the traditional congregation of Old World Polish Jews, continued its separate religious practices while it maintained friendly relations with the members of the first Hebrew Congregation.

* A shopping mall in Old Tallinn is named De la Gardie in honour of Jacob De la Gardie.

In the earlier Old Testament texts the bene elohim were gods, but subsequently they became angels, the " messengers " ( malakim ), whom Jacob sees going up and down a " ladder " ( actually a celestial mountain ) between heaven and earth.

This phenomenon can also be traced through many passages from the Old Testament, such as those related to Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, who poured oil over a stone that he erected after his famous dream in which angels climbed to heaven ( Genesis 28: 10-22 ).

Decorative 18th century door piece from the Vierschaar ( city tribunal ) in Old City Hall ( The Hague ) | City Hall of The Hague, by Jacob de Wit, illustrating Audi alteram partem.

The only previous known Auduid is recorded in Gimo, Sweden ( in Tiundaland, Uppland, Svealand ) on a runestone likely carved at the behest of Anund Jacob or Emund the Old:

The Old Order Amish Churches are a North American religious body descended from the Anabaptist Mennonite followers of Jacob Amman.

* Ladder of Jacob, a pseudepigraphic text of the Old Testament

Jacob Grimm ( 1835 ) identified Menglöð ( Old Norse " the one who takes pleasure in jewels ") with Freyja.

West royal tumulus at Gamla Uppsala | Old Uppsala, suggested grave of King Eadgils ( photo: Jacob Truedson Demitz ) Eadgils, Adils, Aðils, Adillus, Aðísl at Uppsölum, Athisl, Athislus or Adhel was a semi-legendary king of Sweden, who is estimated to have lived during the 6th century.