As the Old Sang, So the Young Pipe, and the Dog Listens

This is a painting by Jacob Jordaens, entitled As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young. As I was browsing through the internet, I came upon this painting and I was captured by it. I may not understand the full context of the painting but I was enthralled by the aesthetic of the painting and started to admire its beauty. I share this painting because I would everyone to see the joyous feeling of togetherness. As shown in the painting the people are portrayed to be singing, and creating music together.

As stated in Wikipedia:

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. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations. In fact, except for a few short trips to locations in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted altarpieces, mythological, and allegorical scenes, and after 1640—the year Rubens died—he was the most important painter in Antwerp for large-scale commissions and the status of his patrons increased in general. However, he is best known today for his numerous large genre scenes based on proverbs in the manner of his contemporary Jan Brueghel the Elder, depicting The King Drinks and As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young. Jordaens’s main artistic influences, besides Rubens and the Brueghel family, were northern Italian painters such as Jacopo Bassano, Paolo Veronese, and Caravaggio.