Biography for Jan van Scorel

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Jan van Scorel was one of the leading Dutch painters of his day. During his life he travelled to Germany, Italy and the Holy Land returning to the Netherlands in 1524. He bought a knowledge of the Italian style known as Mannerism back to northern Europe and evolved a highly individual Dutch Mannerist style. His figures have a delicate refinement of form and gesture that stems from Mannerism while the brilliant, thinly painted landscape is in the northern tradition.