Jan Steen’s Self Portrait in “The Continence of Scipio” as a Social Commentary

Jan Steen's self-portrait in "Supbia Autonomy" as a social commentary is a big difference between a fool and a clown. A fool is seen as arrogant stupidity, relaxed, stupid, nostalgic feeling that makes other people happy. These happy people represent the lowest in society. It is too easy, can not progress in society, and is so stupid as to be unable to take care. Many people think that Jan Steen is an outstanding highly educated artist in the Netherlands Golden Age.

In the Netherlands, residents of bars and bars have long been subjecting artists to eternal and social criticism. Dutch Golden Age painters like Jan Steen and Adriaen van Ostade made a prostitute and a drunk portrait in the 17th century and tried to condense into a vibrant poor working class pub culture world . An anonymous face depicting the lowest class, a portrait of this type of triplet, is a kind of research, the best example is Adriaen Brouwer's work. It is real. In the twentieth century Europe, the Toronie style resurfaced as a new photographic medium, Brassais in France and Masters of Anders Petersen in Germany caught the bar as a representative of the whole world. You can see that taking a friend's drunk snapshot at a bar is actually counted as a work of art.

Scipio is a Petrarch Latin epic African hero. "Spirio's control" is the theme of stock in exemplary literature and art, "Spiria's dream" depicts his moral choice between virtue and luxury. The rhythm of Saipio depicting his tolerance and sexual restraint after the collapse of Cartagonova is a more popular theme. Version of this theme was drawn by many artists from Renaissance to the 19th century, such as Andrea Mantegna and Nicholas Poussin. Scipio was also mentioned in Machiavelli's work "Prince" (Chapter 17 "About atrocities and forgiveness, and whether it is superior to being afraid"). Milton mentioned Scipia in Book 9 of Lost Paradise and Book 3 of Regaining Paradise. Rafael's painting "The vision of the knight" is thought to be the depiction of the scipio.