Abraham Janssens I

1575–1632 · Baroque

Abraham Janssens I, Abraham Janssen I or Abraham Janssens van Nuyssen (1575–1632) was a Flemish painter, who is known principally for his large religious and mythological works, which show the influence of Caravaggio. He was the leading history painter in Flanders prior to the return of Rubens from Italy.

37 paintings

• Mount Olympus (1615)
• Saint Jerome
• Naiads Filling the Horn of Achelous. Allegory on the peace of the 12 years Truce, (1610)
• Ceres, Bacchus and Venus (1650)
• Allegorie der vier Elemente (1650)
• Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist (1611)
• Allegory of Joy and Melancholy (1628)
• The lamentation over the dead Christ (1600)
• Heraclitus (1601)
• The Doubting Thomas (1610)
• Lascivia (1619)
• Young woman with a wineglass and artichokes (Allegory of Lascivea or Taste) (1619)
• Penitent Saint Jerome (1607)
• An Allegory of Fortune (1650)
• Allegory of the burdens of time (1609)
• The judgement of Midas (1601)
• Meleager presents the head of the Calydonian Boar to Atalanta (1575)
• Noli me Tangere (1620)
• Jupiter Rebuked by Venus (1612)
• Madonna with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
• Scaldis and Antverpia (1608)
• The Adoration of the Magi (1616)
• Concord, Charity and Sincerity Conquering Discord (1622)
• Sibyl (1616)
• Lamentation (1620)
• The Sense of Sight
• The Four Elements
• The origin of cornucopia (1619)
• Mysthische Vermählung der hl. Katharina
• Venus kroont Aeneas (1625)
• Diana and her Companions, Diana after the Chase (1613)
• Anbetung der Könige (1650)
• St. Mary Magdalene giving up the riches of this world (1700)
• Nero
• Vertumnus and Pomona (1615)
• Meleager and Atalante (1610)
• Venus   and  Adonis (1620)