'Van Scorel was the first northern Netherlandish artist to absorb the influence of Italian High Renaissance art in its native country. In Italy he learned the elements of Italian Renaissance approach to landscape painting, an idealized vision of Roman antiquity where shepherds tended flocks in serene, hilly terrain.'
Triptych with The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, saints and on the outside of the wings, patrons of the Van Lokhorst family (1526 - 1527) by Jan van ScorelCentraal Museum
'After the Pope's death in 1523, Scorel returned to Utrecht. According to his biographer Karel van Mander he took up residence with Herman van Lokhorst, deacon of the St-Salvator church and canon of the Dom church.'
Triptych with The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, saints and on the outside of the wings, patrons of the Van Lokhorst family (circa 1526) by Jan van ScorelCentraal Museum
'In 1522 Scorel settled in Rome, where the Utrechter pope Adrian Florisz Boeyens (1459-1523) appointed him to succeed Raphael (1483-1520) as 'conservator' of the Vatican's art treasures. After the Pope's death in 1523, Scorel returned to Utrecht.'
Portrait of a Young Scholar (1531) by Jan van ScorelMuseum Boijmans Van Beuningen
'The unsigned painting is widely accepted as a work by Jan van Scorel, though some art historians attribute it to Scorel's pupil Maarten van Heemskerck, who painted similar portraits in the same period.'
The Baptism of Christ in the Jordan (1525/1535) by Jan van ScorelFrans Hals Museum
'In creating this scene, Van Scorel was clearly inspired by works by Italian masters of his time, among them Giorgione (the landscape) and Raphael (the three male figures on the right). Van Scorel spent the years 1520 to 1524 in Italy.'
Five Members of the Utrecht Brotherhood of Jerusalem Pilgrims (circa 1541) by Jan van ScorelCentraal Museum
'Since 1880, the panel has been alternately attributed to Jan van Scorel and his student, the portraitist Anthonie Mor.'
