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Jupiter Rebuked by Venus, Abraham Janssens, c. 1612
Abraham Janssens

Jupiter Rebuked by Venus

c. 1612 · Painting

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Where is “Jupiter Rebuked by Venus” now? Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 208, Chicago. Yes, on view now. Checked September 29, 2026.

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About the painting

Abraham Janssens, Peter Paul Rubens's major competitor in Antwerp in the 1610s, produced monumental paintings of mythological and secular subjects. Influenced by his five-year stay in Rome, he injected his paintings with recognizable quotations from ancient sculpture and Italian Renaissance painting. This scene of Venus reprimanding the visibly annoyed Jupiter on Mount Olympus is a direct reference to a composition by the Italian artist Raphael on the ceiling of the Villa Farnesina in Rome. Janssens, however, enhanced the power and dynamism of the figures by emphasizing their musculature and working on a larger scale.

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Accession number
1986.996

What it shows

Mythological figuresChildFiguresManWomanDeitiesGoddessMythology

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PaintingsOilFlemish paintingBaroque17th centuryFlanders

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