Editing Jan van Scorel (section)

{{Short description|Dutch painter (1495–1562)}}
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[[File:Jan van Scorel by Anthonis Mor van Dashorst.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Jan van Scorel by [[Antonis Mor]] (1560)]]
[[File:De stervende Cleopatra Rijksmuseum SK-A-2843.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.2|''The dying [[Cleopatra]]'' (c.1522)]]
[[File:Obervellach St.Martin Frangipani-Altar.jpg|thumb|Obervellach, St.Martin's church, Frangipani-Altar]]
'''Jan van Scorel''' (1 August 1495 – 6 December 1562<ref name=RKD />) was a Dutch painter, who played a leading role in introducing aspects of [[Italian Renaissance painting]] into [[Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting]].  He was one of the early painters of the [[Romanism (painting)|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, [[Pope Adrian VI|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 and he also visited [[Nuremberg]], [[Venice]] and [[Jerusalem]]. Venetian art had an important impact on the development of his style.<ref>Snyder, 467–469</ref>

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 (city)|Utrecht]] in 1530 and established a large workshop on the Italian model. The workshop mainly produced altarpieces, many of which were destroyed in the [[Beeldenstorm|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.<ref>Snyder, 469–473</ref>