Jan van Scorel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jan van Scorel

painter from the Northern Netherlands

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1495

Place of Birth: Schoorl, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 06-Dec-1562

Profession: architect, painter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Jan van Scorel

  • Jan van Scorel (1 August 1495 – 6 December 1562) was a Dutch painter, who played a leading role in introducing aspects of Italian Renaissance painting into Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting.
  • Van Scorel was one of the early painters of the Romanist style who had spent a number of years in Italy, where he thoroughly absorbed the Italian style of painting.
  • His trip to Italy coincided with the brief reign of the only Dutch pope in history, Adrian VI in 1522-23.
  • The pope made him a court painter and superintendent of his collection of antiquities.
  • His stay in Italy lasted from 1518 to 1524.
  • He also visited Nuremberg, Venice and Jerusalem.
  • Venetian art had an important impact on the development of his style.He differed from most Romanists in that he was a native of the northern Netherlands and not of Flanders and that he remained most of his life in the northern Netherlands.
  • He settled permanently in Utrecht in 1530 and established a large workshop on the Italian model.
  • The workshop mainly produced altarpieces, many of which were destroyed in the Reformation iconoclasm in the years just after his death.
  • He also held clerical appointments.
  • This did not stop him from having a long-time relationship with a mistress who may have modelled for some of his female figures.

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