Jacob Jordaens en Een Nieu Liedeken van Callo. Een onverwacht dubbelzinnig gebruik van een zeventiende-eeuws Zuid-Nederlands zegelied

Jordaens's aim in inscribing three differing compositions of the proverb As the old sang, so pipe the young with the title of a victory song from the Southern Netherlands, Een Nieu Liedeken van Callo (1638), can only be understood in conjunction with a rejoinder ballad from the North (1644), thus forming a terminus post quem for these paintings. The converse use of a song underscores the topsy-turvy world which Jordaens emulates in this proverb which is intent on facilitating a predestination interpretation. Erasmus and his contemporaries exploited exempla contraria to great success but the ab... Mehr ...