Jordaens' The Holy Family with Shepherds

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Sydney has stopped at The Holy Family with Shepherds for today’s episode. This artwork was painted by Jacob Jordaens and shows a simple moment between mother and child. Sydney talks about approachability, makes a dorky reference, and accepting but not denying experiences.
Show notes
The sources used for the information on Jordaens are
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1426.html
Kimberlee Cloutier Blazzard, "The Wise Man has two tongues: Images of the Satyr and the Peasant in Jordaens and Steen", in Myth in History, History in Myth, Brill, Boston, 2009
The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Ed. Hugh Brigstocke, Oxford University Press, 2001. Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, Published online: 2003
https://research.rkd.nl/en/detail/https%3A%2f%2fdata.rkd.nl%2fartists%2f42880
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacob-Jordaens
https://www.jacobjordaens.org/biography.html
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/jacob-jordaens
The transcript of this episode can be found at https://longlivebatart.tumblr.com/post/750666788181868544/jordaens-the-holy-family-with-shepherds
Artist biography: 00:36
Description of art: 02:53
Thoughts: 05:30
Challenge: 08:34

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Music:

Intro and outro music- soda pop
Transitional music between segments- Atlantis
Underlying music for speaking- Mountain Breeze
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